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The Immortality of Capital
In the daily doomscroll, I came across this news article that tells of how Alan Hamel, a multi-millionaire entrepreneur has been ‘keeping his wife alive’ with AI’ “you can’t tell the difference!” Grief effects people different, of course it does, and being married for 55 years, I can perhaps understand…
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Fossilised politics
What I’ve found over the last few years, particularly as I’ve engaged with the lives of environmental activists through the now concluding OHEM project is that the continuing arch of the twenty-first century’s history will be inseparable from the politics of energy; in the broadest sense of the word. How…
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“Got your number”: 118118 as the cultural ghosts of a future we never had
In the early 2000s, before the global financial crash ripped the world apart and the latent fascistic tumult was cloaked in a burial shroud of capitalist realism, the soon-to-be outgoing Labour government was not immune to the heady allure of the privatisation drug. In their sights was the clumsy, but…
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R/revolution
The Revolution (with a capital R), if it comes at all, is already too late. There has already been too much carnage, too many people killed, too many babies starved, too many young adults maimed, too many immigrants ripped from their families, too many hospitals destroyed, too many children orphaned,…
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Why is there is so much hate in the world?
It’s easy to feel hateful at the moment isn’t it? Humanitarian flotillas are kidnapped by rogue states, fascist leaders and thug cops mercilessly beat peaceful protestors; and that’s just in the last few hours. Pretty much since I can remember, the mediascape has been full of situations and institutions that…
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The Architecture of Alienation: Severance and the Marxist Office-Space Nightmare
I’ve just finished season 1 of Severance, the Apple TV+ series and I must say, I’m impressed. The way it slices consciousness into ‘innie’ and ‘outie’ is a clear allegory of Marx’s concept of alienation, but for me (with my obdurate urban gegoraohy schooling) the architecture doesn’t just set the…
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Three Immediate, Cost-Free Interventions to Avert Collapse in UK Higher Education
UK higher education (HE) is undergoing a profound and deeply unsettling crisis. Universities across the country including Newcastle, Cardiff, UEA, Dundee and many others (seemingly by the day) are shedding staff, closing departments, and strikes are taking their toll. The sector is in a state of managed decline, and the…
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The Limits of Marx in the Age of Trumpian christofascism
For me, it is increasingly perplexing to witness traditional class-based critiques being clumsily deployed to analyse our contemporary social crisis in the age of Trumpism 2.0. That is not to say that the well-trodden frameworks of capitalist critique, particularly those rooted in Marxist analysis, aren’t relevant in understanding economic exploitation,…
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Excess as Resistance: The Panacea of Collective Joy in an Age of Fascism
The spectre of fascism that once loomed with unsettling persistence, has now firmly taken root in the American heartland. While it was always present for some, it is now the politics for all. The question of how to resist it is not merely academic but essential. Fascism, as history and…
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2098: Regeneration Day for King Elon
This year’s ceremony was not going to be like the rest. 125 years old is a big milestone after all. To celebrate, King Elon was going to address Fiefdom Terra and rumours were swirling he was going to offer some gifts to mark the occasion. The excitement was palpable. So,…
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