I’ve reviewed When the Clock Broke by John Ganz for the latest London Review of Books, asking how the rise of Trump might change what we consider to be a ‘model case’ of a crisis, and its correlates in the UK.
‘Repeal the 20th century’
‘Another Age of Anxiety’
New (open access) article in Theory Culture & Society, on the genealogy of modern ‘anxiety’, the post-2008 surge in ‘anxiety disorders’, and their connection to the ‘asset economy’. This accompanies a previous article on similar themes, ‘Owning Towards Death’, that was published last year.
unSILOed podcast interview
I discussed many aspects of my work, particularly focusing on rationalism and quantification, with Greg LeBlanc for his unSILOed podcast. Links to the audio podcast here.
‘Owning towards death’
I have a new, open access article published in Finance & Society, on the legitimation crisis of contemporary wealth-based capitalism and the existential unease that results.
‘The petit bourgeois insurrection’
Review essay on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, published in The New Statesman
‘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.
‘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.
‘Madman Economics’
Article in London Review of Books about the new economic turmoil in Britain, and how the Tories have abandoned traditional neoliberal reverence for ‘the markets’.
Trussonomics will be a reckless exercise in slashing the state when there’s nothing left to cut
Opinion piece in The Guardian on the revival of failed ‘supply-side’ economic dogma, as the inspiration of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng.
‘The Problem of Trust in the Digital Public Sphere’
In February I was invited by Marion Fourcade to give a lecture at Social Science Matrix, UC Berkeley. The lecture, based on various recent arguments and pieces of mine on neoliberalism, platforms and the crisis of liberalism, was entitled ‘The Problem of Trust in the Digital Public Sphere’. You can watch it here.
‘Post-Neoliberalism?’
Nicholas Gane and I have co-edited a special issue of Theory Culture & Society on the theme of ‘Post-neoliberalism?’. It features articles by Melinda Cooper, Quinn Slobodian, Dorit Geva, Roger Burrows and Harrison Smith, Alan Finlayson, Nicholas Gane and me, on various aspects of the challenges to neoliberalism, especially those from the political Right. The special issue was accepted and the pieces commissioned prior to 2020, so they don’t confront the most recent upheavals and challenges to the political-economic order. However, the Introduction (which is open access) does address the significance of the Covid-19 pandemic, and what it means for the status of ‘neoliberalism’.
The holiday of exchange value
Blogpost written for the Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre, looking at the coronavirus crisis from the perspective of economic sociology of markets.
Review of Matthew Watson’s The Market, published in Theory Culture & Society.
How did ‘the market’ become a thing?
Politics, Power, Change – Novara FM
Discussion with James Butler and Eleanor Penny, broadcast 14th July 2017.
What is “neo” about Neoliberalism?
Article in New Republic, excerpted from new edited collection, Liberalism in Neoliberal Times, published by Goldsmiths Press
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