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.
‘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.
Interview with Dan Hind and Tom Mills, exploring Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the news agenda.
‘Why the outrage?‘, published in London Review of Books, looks at the scandals surrounding Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Trump victory.
‘What are they after?’, published in London Review of Books, explores the thinking and psychology behind Tory Brexiteers.
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress reviewed in The Guardian.
Speaking at a panel session with Ruth Cain and Jay Watts, hosted by New School Economics at Goldsmiths, January 2018
Discussing writing with Robert Cottrell, as part of the Browser’s ‘writers we admire’ series of interviews.
I’ll be giving a lecture, ‘The Neoliberal Spirit of Populism‘, at Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung, Berlin, 8th February 2018. This is part of a series of lectures, Great Crisis of Capitalism – A Second Great Transformation?
Interview with the State of Nature blog, discussing happiness, wellbeing and the culture of neoliberalism.
In conversation with Tom Crewe about recent London Review of Books articles, published as an LRB Podcast, 2nd August 2017
