Unbuilding Walls, 1: Brick and Mortar

“He wanted a territory. He felt the need for caution. But he felt more strongly the need that had brought Continue reading →

Trump: Hegel’s World Historical Individual?

Recently I read an interesting article from Gideon Rachman. As the chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times, he Continue reading →

Seoul Stories: Han Kang, Violence and Candlelight

The day I stood shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of my fellow civilians, staring down the barrels of Continue reading →

The Spectacle of the Scaffold – Foucault, Corporal Punishment, and the Digital Age

Witnesses who described the scene could even be prosecuted, thereby ensuring that the execution should cease to be a spectacle Continue reading →

The Mexican Subject: Semantics, Violence and the Female Aspect

Given the recent debates from both the GOP and the Democratic party the subject of the Mexican individual has been Continue reading →

Transport for London and the Total Advertisement

When TfL announced that Canada Water station was to be dubbed ‘Buxton Water’ for Marathon Day we witnessed one of Continue reading →

Louis Althusser, the Ideological State Apparatus, and Interpellation

Imagine that you’ve magically transformed into a bourgeoisie capitalist. You wake up one morning and…poof: regal cashmere pajamas, silk blankets, Continue reading →

Deleuze V. Dolezal – Yeah, We’re Actually Doing This

Deleuze and Identity Politics Deleuze has been used before to critique identity politics, sometimes this has been done with the Continue reading →

The Third Industrial Revolution

The industrial revolution of the 19th Century has undoubtedly been one of the most significant economic and cultural developments in human Continue reading →

Stiegler’s Memory, 2: The Industrialisation of Consciousness

Technical and Political Memory As I outlined in Stiegler’s Memory,1: The Problem With Husserl, Bernard Stiegler argues that Husserl’s traditional Continue reading →

How Green Party Policy Would Resuscitate the BBC

True democracy can only be achieved through a properly informed public. This is the maxim on which the Green Party Continue reading →

Election 2015: The TTIPing point

The TTIPing point: TTIP Versus Cigarette Legislation MPs have voted by a majority of 254 to strip branding from cigarette Continue reading →

The ‘Champagne Socialist’ Fallacy

‘Champagne socialist,’ ‘limousine liberal’, or my personal favourite ‘bourgeois bohemian’ are equivalent accusations aimed at people who advocate socialist thought, Continue reading →

It’s Time For a Serious Discussion About Psychedelics

Ed Miliband recently stated on the program Bite the Ballot: ‘while I haven’t taken drugs, I’ve got a pretty clear Continue reading →

Modafinil – Are Smart Drugs Really That Smart?

If you’ve been reading the national newspapers over the last couple of years you’d be forgiven for believing that students Continue reading →

Citizenfour, Snowden, and the Problem of Privacy

In the USA, 1972, the Watergate scandal shook the foundations of the American political institution in what has been described Continue reading →

Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

Another Borges book. Another 5 stars. I mean this man is so brilliant I’m starting to turn into a dithering Continue reading →