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.
‘A dog in the fight’
‘The business-lounge intellectual’
Review of Martin Wolf’s new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, published in The New Statesman
‘Theory wars: how postmodernism became weaponised’
Review of Stuart Jeffries new book, Everything All The Time Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern, published in The New Statesman.
Review of Gordon Brown’s book
I reviewed Seven Ways to Change the World by Gordon Brown for The Guardian
Review of new Thomas Piketty book
I’ve reviewed Thomas Piketty’s Capital & Ideology for The Guardian.
Review of Matthew Watson’s The Market, published in Theory Culture & Society.
How did ‘the market’ become a thing?
Review essay of Strangers in their Own Land
Published in International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, alongside a response from the author, Arlie Russell Hocschild.
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