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.
‘Bonfire of the bureaucrats’
‘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.
unSILOed podcast interview
I discussed many aspects of my work, particularly focusing on rationalism and quantification, with Greg LeBlanc for his unSILOed podcast. Links to the audio podcast here.
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.
Interview with Politics Theory Other podcast
I discussed Labour’s economic policy agenda on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
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.
‘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.
‘A crisis in credibility’
Article in London Review of Books on Labour’s economic dilemmas and the recent budget.
‘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.
‘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.
‘Fever dream’
Essay in London Review of Books reflecting on 14 years of Tory rule
‘Generation anxiety’
Review essay on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, published in London Review of Books.
‘The petit bourgeois insurrection’
Review essay on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, published in The New Statesman
‘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.
‘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.
William Davies 