I have written the cover story for this week’s New Statesman, an essay on the new wave of anti-bureaucratic sentiment sweeping states around the world.
Blog
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‘Another Age of Anxiety’
New (open access) article in Theory Culture & Society, on the genealogy of modern ‘anxiety’, the post-2008 surge in ‘anxiety disorders’, and their connection to the ‘asset economy’. This accompanies a previous article on similar themes, ‘Owning Towards Death’, that was published last year.
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Interview with Novara
This interview with Ash Sarkar covers lots of things, well beyond Elon Musk: the nature of the current conjuncture, crisis or ‘vibeshift’; the threat of the Trump presidency and authoritarianism; the state of neoliberalism; the challenges and contradictions confronting the Labour government; and more.
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LRB Podcast on Labour’s economic policy
I discussed my recent London Review of Books essay, reflecting on Labour’s economic plans, with the LRB podcast.
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‘Owning towards death’
I have a new, open access article published in Finance & Society, on the legitimation crisis of contemporary wealth-based capitalism and the existential unease that results.
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‘A crisis in credibility’
Article in London Review of Books on Labour’s economic dilemmas and the recent budget.
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‘Stay home: mapping the new domestic regime’
I have a new open access paper in Economy & Society, co-authored with Sahil Dutta and Nick Taylor, on the rising centrality of ‘home’ to current political, economic and governmental problems.
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‘How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster’
Long Read for The Guardian, as part of a series on 14 years of Conservative rule, on the crisis facing universities and its political roots.
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‘Generation anxiety’
Review essay on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, published in London Review of Books.
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‘The petit bourgeois insurrection’
Review essay on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, published in The New Statesman
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‘Antimarket’
Review of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism won’t save the planet by Brett Christophers, published in the latest London Review of Books.
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‘Reaction value: affective reflex in the digital public sphere’
A new academic article published in Distinktion, of which a preprint is available here (or there are apparently free downloads here for the first 50 people who click on the link). This is a theoretical development of the themes I explored in my LRB Winter Lecture last year.
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