Writer on politics, philosophy, and culture. PhD in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory from UCL. Author of Antagonisms of the Everyday on Substack.
Joined February 2019
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Psychoanalysis is one of the most important tools of political analysis today. And unfortunately it is being destroyed by empiricist trends in modern psychoanalysis. I have a black book of many people in the psychoanalytic community that I would have outlawed if I had the power.
This is not some great showdown, it is yet another contraction in the economic system of which both Musk and Trump are identical avatars. Nixon could have prepared us for this.
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Trump, Musk, or Epstein? Perhaps the real confrontation is the one we need to make with the fact that the elite logic of attracting popular sympathy was a failed alternative, or the fact that we need a critique of this form of humble, large scale capital structures more than ever
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A Social History of Analytic Philosophy is out today! Available from @VersoBooks via the link below, or from your favourite bookseller
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My latest article for @BylineTimes on why misinformation in fact reveals a problem with information itself. Available in the latest issue.
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Farewell to a great modern philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025). MacIntyre was primarily an ethicist who combined and applied sharp analytic skills with a deep historical knowledge, thereby providing genuine ethical insights rather than regurgitating contemporary moral ideologies that snare most researchers in the field. His enduring question for our era, in my eyes, was always ‘Nietzsche or Aristotle?’. He chose the latter which is where I parted with him, yet his push for the return of virtue ethics is nonetheless welcomed.
My @Newsweek article from a few months ago arguing that Trump’s politics are no longer reducible to the category of populism feels somewhat relevant again…
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My argument for @Newsweek that Trump cannot even be called a populist anymore:
newsweek.com/donald-trump-no…
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Delays lose all importance once you consider reading your work. Train cancelled? Read. Friends taking too long to get ready? Read. Waiting for a colleague to get back to you? Read. This is the only functional life hack and it’s a practical critique of temporality.
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Late to be published, but here is a piece I wrote for Everyday Analysis on the US Election and Psychoanalysis - specifically that it is time to abandon trying to understand politics “for itself”:
everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/…
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Also, mine overshadowed Slavoj Zizek’s article on the same day, so I am ipso facto more accomplished that him already
Late to be published, but here is a piece I wrote for Everyday Analysis on the US Election and Psychoanalysis - specifically that it is time to abandon trying to understand politics “for itself”:
everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/…
I’ve come to the conclusion that ChatGPT is an absolutely terrible resource for philosophy research.
Delays lose all importance once you consider reading your work. Train cancelled? Read. Friends taking too long to get ready? Read. Waiting for a colleague to get back to you? Read. This is the only functional life hack and it’s a practical critique of temporality.
Christian Socialism is quite a disappointment and considers itself a tautology. Catholic Marxism, on the other hand, may have some potential.
“I’d like the idea without them complex language and presentation.” Me too, but it seems that the idea itself is sometimes internally problematic and obscure.
I’ve seen a lot of literature courses include Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy on their syllabus, but hardly any include his later (more exciting) books. Why is this?
