Going deep down the Well for the first time

True

Utilitarianism must be destroyed

The US government is simulating the return of great power rivalry to give Peter Thiel a toy island

China has no territory or interest in the region. Russia can't win a war in Ukraine. This is nostalgia mode frontierism for assets that will soon be underwater.

Honoured to speak at the Žižek conference in Prague on his ideological romanticism and, ultimately, conservative politics

Very excited and honoured to be included in the upcoming Haunted Futures conference in Cork!

I'll discuss the crisis of an increasingly hegemonic post-internet far right, and the relevance of hauntology for re-thinking antifascism

"Are you the Jesuve?"

Excited to announce I'll be participating in a conference on Slavoj Žižek in Prague this November!

I'll be talking about the nostalgia disease, 'afflicted imagination', and the conservative limits of Žižek's romantic and bruising pathos of ideology theory

In postmodern culture, the genocidal fascist and failed comedian are one in being professional cynics.

They loooove debate. They intuitively understand that Power today is exercised as sleights of attention and simulation. They get their kicks from this exhaustion of language