‘How the Johnson campaign is bringing Trump’s media tactics to Britain’
‘They don’t even need ideas’
Essay on Brexit and the crisis of representative democracy, published in London Review of Books.
Interview with FT Alphaville
This podcast interview with Jamie Powell and Thomas Hale explores central themes from Nervous States, especially in relation to economics and economic policy.
In advance of my participation in this week’s Sydney Writer’s Festival, I spoke at length to Phillip Adams about Nervous States, host of Late Night Live.
ABC Late Night Live
‘The funny side of politics’
Article published in openDemocracy on the convergence of comedy and politics.
‘Calm Down Dear’ – how angry should politics get
I too part in this discussion with Fern Riddell, Kehinde Andrews and Jo Ann Nadler at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, recorded at the Sage Gateshead, now available from Radio 3
New York launch of Nervous States on C-Span
This discussion with Max Read was hosted at McNally Jackson, Williamsburg, and is now available to view thanks to C-Span Books.
Podcast on the crisis of expertise
The Critical Theory blog has a new podcast, The Order of Things. This interview explored themes of the rise of and challenges to expertise, discussed in Nervous States.
Democracy and the decline of reason
Discussing Nervous States with Mind of State, a new podcast exploring the intersection of politics and psychology.
In conversation with Josh Cohen on ‘the psychopolitics of accleration’
This recording is of a public conversation I had with Goldsmiths colleague Josh Cohen, to explore overlapping themes of our two books, Nervous States and Not Working
‘Everything is war and nothing is true’
Op-Ed published in The New York Times, featuring arguments from Nervous States.
‘The end of the age of objectivity’
Interview with The New Yorker on Nervous States, covering Trump and the status of truth in American politics right now.
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