Interview with Five Books website, for which I selected the them of ‘moral economy’. The selected books are by Max Weber, Marcel Mauss, Albert Hirschman, Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello and David Graeber.
Five Books on ‘moral economy’
Nervous States – events
Upcoming events and discussions of my forthcoming book (more will be added as they are confirmed):
26th September – Blackwells, Oxford, in conversation with George Monbiot
29th September – Wigtown Book Festival
13th October – Ilkley Literary Festival
15th October – Waterstones Picadilly, London, in conversation with Tom Sutcliffe
14th November – Guardian Live, in conversation with Jonathan Shainin
21st November – Burley Fisher books, in conversation with Suzanne Moore
22nd November – Queen Mary Center for the History of the Emotions Annual Lecture
Guardian Long Read on ‘free speech’
‘The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis’, Long Read in The Guardian
This article is also available as a podcast.
On Jordan Peterson
A review of Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris and Douglas Murray, speaking at The O2 arena on 16th July, published in the London Review of Books.
The ‘revenge of sovereignty on government’
Op-ed article in The New York Times, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence.
What is ‘left populism’?
Review of For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe, published in The Guardian.
Review of Matthew Watson’s The Market, published in Theory Culture & Society.
How did ‘the market’ become a thing?
My new book, Nervous States: How feeling took over the world, is now out in the UK, published by Jonathan Cape. It will be published by Norton in the United States in early 2019.
I’ll be speaking about the book at a number of events over the coming months.
Discussion of Facebook and the threat to democracy, with Jamie Bartlett and Monica Horton.
Thinking Allowed
Article on Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’
‘Weaponising Paperwork’, published in London Review of Books, looks at the political and policy context that has victimised members of the ‘Windrush generation’.
‘Facebook Break-up: Time to cash out?’, interview for Interchange, broadcast on WFHB radio.
On Facebook and surveillance
Discussing Cambridge Analytica
Interview with Dan Hind and Tom Mills, exploring Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the news agenda.
On Cambridge Analytica
‘Why the outrage?‘, published in London Review of Books, looks at the scandals surrounding Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Trump victory.
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