Review of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism won’t save the planet by Brett Christophers, published in the latest London Review of Books.
‘Reaction value: affective reflex in the digital public sphere’
A new academic article published in Distinktion, of which a preprint is available here (or there are apparently free downloads here for the first 50 people who click on the link). This is a theoretical development of the themes I explored in my LRB Winter Lecture last year.
‘Thomas Piketty’s failed revolution’
An essay for Unherd, reflecting on the significance and impact of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one decade on from its publication.
‘Left Behind: the failed revolutions of the 2010s’
I discussed my recent article, ‘The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution’, on the New Statesman podcast. Listen on Acast or iTunes.
‘Eye-watering taxes are a problem for the Tories – and an even bigger one for Labour’
Comment piece in The Guardian on the new fiscal settlement, in which tax rises have become unmoored from any palpable social progress.
‘The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without revolution’
A review essay for The New Statesman, examining two new books on the 2010s, If We Burn by Vincent Bevins and The Populist Moment by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger.
‘Why Weber?’
Review essay on Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber and the crisis of higher education, published in the London Review of Books.
Review of Doppelganger
Review of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, published in The Guardian.
‘No, Rishi Sunak, ‘rip-off’ degree courses aren’t the problem – failed education policy is’
Comment piece in The Guardian on how Britain reached a situation in which the Prime Minister is promising to “crack down on rip-off degrees”
LRB podcast on inflation
I discussed my recent LRB article on inflation with Thomas Jones on the LRB podcast. Listen here.
‘Pain, no gain’
I’ve written for London Review of Books about the crisis of inflation and rising interest rates in the UK, and the wider ideological climate.
‘Peter Turchin’s empty prophecies’
Review of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin, published in The New Statesman
‘The post-neoliberal moment’
I was interviewed by Evgeny Morozov on ‘post-neoliberalism’, as part of a series of interviews and discussions published by The Syllabus. For more on ‘post-neoliberalism’, see the special issue of Theory Culture & Society I co-edited on the topic.
‘Trust and authenticity in the age of infinite data’ – Dublin, 7th June
I will be giving a public keynote lecture in Dublin on 7th June, as part of this conference on ‘trust’ hosted by University College Dublin. Register here to attend.
‘A dog in the fight’
I’ve written about the phenomenon of ‘fandom’, especially how it was fetishised and commercialised in the early 1990s, in the latest London Review of Books, in a review of Paul Campos’s A Fan’s Life.