Category: philosophy, capitalism,
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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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“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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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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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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On Being Evil
Today of all days feels like a good time to revisit how we theorise ‘evil’. Too often we will hear people say “he’s evil” or “they’re pure evil” or “that country is evil”, but this just is invoking very blinkered, binary and too moralistic forms of what evil is, often…
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The liberal life of Riley: An ubuntu critique of Inside Out 2
I finally got round to watching Inside Out 2 the other day, and as a father to a 13 year old daughter (and with another not far behind), it certainly struck an emotionally reverbate, and achingly familar chord. The film is great. I want to say that straight away. It…
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