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Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

  • Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

  • Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

  • “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

  • Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

  • The triangulation of centrists emboldens the far-right

  • The political economy of hopelessness

  • Molecules of fascism”: the ‘Red Pill’ as Antidepressant

  • The rise of sociophobia

  • The future’s not what it used to be

  • The powerful cultural pull to the right which has been felt in parts of the left

  • The thrill of the alt-position

  • The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again

  • The unconscious fluency of writing

  • The highly evolved, politicised, social industry-based apparatus of personal destruction

  • Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Resistance

  • Why herd immunity through vaccination isn’t possible

  • The sociological overlaps with incel culture

  • Big Tech’s (apparent) crackdown on the far right

  • The death march into crisis

  • How will vaccine nationalism reshape globalisation?

  • Fragile movements and social media

  • The coming fascism

  • Is capitalism too big to fail?

  • The perpetual warfare of the populist president

  • The fractal fascism taking shape around us

  • Our tributes to the power the machine has over us

  • Why it’s fine to ‘broadcast’ on Twitter

  • The sociology of Elliot Rodger

  • The politics of austerity

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