Article published in openDemocracy on the convergence of comedy and politics.
‘The funny side of 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.
Nervous States out in the US
Nervous States: Democracy & the Decline of Reason is published in the US by Norton on 26th February. It’s been described as an “interdisciplinary masterpiece” in The New York Times Book Review, and The New Yorker interviewed me about the book’s ideas here.
I’ll be discussing the book with Max Read of New York Magazine on 5th March at McNally Jackson, Brooklyn.
‘Leave, and Leave Again’
Article published in the London Review of Books, looking at the political crisis of Brexit, following the government defeat on 15th January.
Why we stopped trusting elites
Long Read on populism and the crisis of trust, published in The Guardian. An audio version of this article is also available.
Anger Fast & Slow
This piece was given as the Annual Lecture at the Queen Mary Center for the History of Emotions.
