I’ve reviewed When the Clock Broke by John Ganz for the latest London Review of Books, asking how the rise of Trump might change what we consider to be a ‘model case’ of a crisis, and its correlates in the UK.
‘Repeal the 20th century’
Interview with Smart Cookies podcast
I discussed the frightening new mutations on the reactionary Right and its economic conditions with the Smart Cookies podcast. Watch on YouTube below or listen on Apple podcasts here.
‘Stupidology’
I have a (currently paywalled) piece in the new N+1, examining the charge of ‘stupidity’ that has been leveled so frequently against the Trump administration, and asking what are the background conditions of a ‘stupid’ age.
‘Bonfire of the bureaucrats’
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.
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.
‘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.
‘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.
‘The petit bourgeois insurrection’
Review essay on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, published in The New Statesman
‘Why Weber?’
Review essay on Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber and the crisis of higher education, published in the London Review of Books.
LRB podcast on inflation
I discussed my recent LRB article on inflation with Thomas Jones on the LRB podcast. Listen here.
‘Pain, no gain’
I’ve written for London Review of Books about the crisis of inflation and rising interest rates in the UK, and the wider ideological climate.
‘The post-neoliberal moment’
I was interviewed by Evgeny Morozov on ‘post-neoliberalism’, as part of a series of interviews and discussions published by The Syllabus. For more on ‘post-neoliberalism’, see the special issue of Theory Culture & Society I co-edited on the topic.
‘A dog in the fight’
I’ve written about the phenomenon of ‘fandom’, especially how it was fetishised and commercialised in the early 1990s, in the latest London Review of Books, in a review of Paul Campos’s A Fan’s Life.
‘Madman Economics’
Article in London Review of Books about the new economic turmoil in Britain, and how the Tories have abandoned traditional neoliberal reverence for ‘the markets’.
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