Blogpost on the hellish election campaign season, at Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre.
‘The punishment of democracy’
‘Control groups’
Interview with Tobias Haberkorn about the themes of Nervous States, published in The Point.
‘How Boris Johnson and Brexit are Berlusconifying Britain’
Comment piece published in The Guardian, on the election and the end of liberalism.
‘A startlingly radical manifesto’
I was asked to review the Labour manifesto for The Guardian Review, alongside other writers on the other manifestos.
‘Let’s eat badly’
Review of Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E. H. Smith, published in the LRB.
Launch of Nervous States, Spanish edition
In conversation with Pablo Simon, Clara Jiménez and Fernando Arancón at Telefonica Fundacion, Madrid.
LRB at 40: in conversation with Katrina Forrester
A podcast is now available for this event, which was held as part of a series marking the 40th birthday of the London Review of Books. We discussed the current crisis of liberalism in relation to our own writing.
‘The Tories have lost their ideology. Now they are merely the party of resentment’
Column, coinciding with Conservative Party conference, published in The Guardian.
Review of Douglas Murray’s book
I reviewed The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray for The Guardian Review.
‘Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?’
Long Read published in the Guardian, on the ‘bias’ wars that now dominate our public sphere, and the challenge posed by ‘big data’ to the traditional media.
‘How to be Prime Minister’
Article published in The London Review of Books, on Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Dominic Cummings.
‘The Political Economy of Pulse’
I have a new paper published in the open access journal, Ephemera, on pulse-rate, wearable technology, real-time data and managerial efforts to ‘govern by rhythm’.
Review of The Twittering Machine
I reviewed Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine for the Guardian.
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