Weird Fictions & Neoliberal Horrors: The British Urban Imaginary

Every morning, first thing, I flick on my phone for a dose of mass death. War-images and propaganda dance on Continue reading →

A Column of Cloud and a Column of Fire: Dimitris Lyacos’ Poena Damni

I One of the most original and significant texts to have come out of Europe in the past generation is Continue reading →

Octopuses, AI, and the Future of the Nation State: In Conversation with Ray Nayler

Click here to watch the full video interview on our new YouTube channel. MB: Hi Ray. Your book The Mountain Continue reading →

Proxies as Ideology: The Hidden Social Violence of Delegation

Proxies are a necessary method of creating efficiencies in the complex social and technical processes characteristic of modern life. A Continue reading →

The Metamorphosis and The Lobster: 100 Years of Power and Dehumanization

Reviews of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 film The Lobster seem to be about fifty-fifty on whether they use the term Kafka-esque, Continue reading →

Divided Times: Jonathan Sacks on Morality

Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a figure who has had an influence well beyond the shores of the UK. Continue reading →

Becoming-insect through Clarice Lispector’s “The passion according to G.H.”

If I confirm my self and consider myself truthful, I’ll be lost because I won’t know where to inlay my Continue reading →

[Hegel’s Glas]ses

It is a rare opportunity for a philosopher to have occasion to comment, not upon the written content of a Continue reading →