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Pursuing an academic career in an age of austerity?
(via AyeshaKazmi from the Occupy Boston protest) [View the story "Pursuing an academic career in an age of austerity?" on Storify]
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“Where the fuck do they get their shit from!?”: Reality Television, Austerity...
It was with some trepidation that I found myself watching Nick and Margaret’s We All Pay Your Benefits. This unspeakably contemptible show is presented as an “ambitious experiment” in which Nick...
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Call for Papers: Futures in Question conference
Call for Papers FUTURES IN QUESTION 11-12 September 2014 Goldsmiths, University of London How is the future imagined, planned for and manifested as the site of social and political struggle?...
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The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies
This relates to the issues I was rambling about here. I’ve posted about Chris Hedges in the past. I’m a big fan of his work. He’s also a very interesting man.
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Tony Blair: ‘I say lies’
Wonderful work by Cassetteboy: Alas! It’s still online here –> http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2014/apr/25/tony-blair-cassetteboy-video-mashup-bloomberg-speech
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CfP: Youth Activism and Resistance Conference
And to complete this clear out of things that were in my inbox that looked too interesting not to share: Youth activism and resistance conference, Friday 13th June 2014, University of Leicester, UK On...
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The next phase of post-democracy? Political disagreement becoming personal...
I listened to a fascinatingly crap podcast while in the gym earlier – Robin Aitken, introduced solely as a ‘Tory supporter’ but last seen complaining about institutional discrimination against...
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What will neo-neoliberal ideology look like?
Do you remember compassionate conservatism? It seemed vacuous when promulgated by George Bush pre-9/11 and even more so when David Cameron was going through his ‘hug a husky’ phase pre-crisis. It still...
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Workshop 11-12th November 2014 –‘Occupying Politics in a Time of Alterity’
Please see attached a call for papers for the workshop entitled ‘Occupying Politics in a Time of Alterity’ to be held at Manchester University on 11-12th November 2014. It seems that the recent...
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The corporate capture of democracy
This week’s George Monbiot column in the Guardian is excellent. It paints a vivid picture of the full scale of corporate capture of the democratic process at a time when the Institute of Directors...
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10 political cliches that make me want to smash my radio
Hard working families Difficult decisions Grown up discussions Playing politics Real people Real jobs There’s no money left in the kitty Open for business UK PLC Vision
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What will post-democracy look like?
As anyone who reads my blog regularly might have noticed, I’m a fan of Colin Crouch’s notion of post-democracy. I’ve interviewed him about it a couple of times: once in 2010 and again in 2013. Whereas...
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From passion to profit: exploitation under neoliberalism, or, how seriously...
Since I first encountered the notion of a calling, I’ve found it a difficult category to expunge from my thought. It appeals to me greatly on a personal level: it points to the higher dimension to...
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The Emperor’s New Clothes
Because we’re leaving them to their own devices The poorest are making all of the sacrifices – The cost of living crisis, house prices, the cost of a deposit, I don’t give a shit But yes of course we...
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What would British fascism look like?
I recently stumbled across this old* Huffington Post article by James Bloodworth, editor of Left Foot Forward, speculating about what a British fascism would look like. I don’t think it’s actually very...
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The surprisingly vitriolic misogyny of James Bond
I recently started reading the Ian Fleming novels for the first time. While I expected some unpleasant sentiments in them, I’ve been surprised by quite how vitriolic Bond’s misogyny is: And then there...
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Upper Clapton Dance (cc @Mookron)
Reading this excellent paper in the Sociological Review reminded me of this video which I’d not seen for ages: The comments on the video would be interesting to analyse in the terms Malcolm James...
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“The problem with capitalism is that it’s not capitalist enough”:...
See below for comments by the Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in this article that are by now rather familiar. This notion can be formulated in many different ways but at root it seeks to redeem...
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David Cameron Serenaded By Ukulele Player Singing ‘F**k Off Back To Eton’
Anyone else waiting for a potential Gillian Duffy moment from Cameron?
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The Avoidance of the Intellectual
Wonderful quote by Edward Said featured on Corey Robin’s blog: Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning...
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