Mike Watson
mikerwatson.bsky.social
Mike Watson
@mikerwatson.bsky.social
Media and art theorist. PhD Goldsmiths College. Texts for Jacobin, Guardian, Radical Philosophy
Writer/co-founder: revolpress.com
"The standard operators of war, governments, fail to accumulate as efficiently as corporations because they have multipolar goals. The singular corporate commandment is grow, which is why 157 of the top 200 economic entities are corporations." Full text below:
revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Read the first in Theory Gang's new series of texts from the corporate frontline on Revol Press's substack:

Tales from the Corp, Part One: revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Such a bad move from Academia.edu. Never much liked the platform, but putting illustrators out of business is a really shi**y idea.
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Neologisms such as Micro-retirement are Gaslighting the Public:

revolpress.substack.com/p/neologisms...
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Read the full text here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
They don't write books or design covers like this anymore:
October 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Marx saw the issue of censorship as central to his critique of the economic system.

Read more here on Revol Press's substack: revolpress.substack.com/p/marx-and-c...
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The book I'm currently working on for Anthem Press:
September 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A transcript of a talk by Fisher on education and capitalism. On the Revol Press Substack.

revolpress.substack.com/p/towards-a-...
September 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Farage will use immigration to gain power, like he used it to bring the UK out of Europe. The facts are not important to him.
September 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Living in Blair's legacy. Can the genuine UK left revive itself?

Full text here: revolpress.substack.com/p/lost-arts-...
September 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#Instagood. Excerpt from Adam Turl's Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth on the Revol Press substack: revolpress.substack.com/p/the-machin...
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
'You work at UPS. The machines write poetry. You work at Starbucks. The machines become actors. You are an adjunct professor. The machines make movies.'

Excerpt a longer from Adam Turl's Gothic Capitalism (Revol Press): revolpress.substack.com/p/the-machin...
September 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Help get the @revol_press instragram to 4000 followers.

Revol Press is a publisher co-founded by Dialectical Meme Stash admins: www.revolpress.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Read the full article on the Revol Press substack:

revolpress.substack.com/p/nietzsche-...
September 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In late 2026-early 2027 Revol Press will release ‘What’s Left of Metal’. A compendium on metal and the left.

See info and contributor list here: www.revolpress.com/whats-left-o...

Editors: David.Burke, Mike Watson
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Right, so the latest cause célèbre of the British far right is that they ought to be allowed to fly England flags from lamp posts anywhere, after a few were taken down by the council (as they were illegally placed). The comments on social media are both hilarious and tragic... check this out:
August 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
How's the doomscrolling going?

Read Bram E. Gieben's full text here on the Revol Press substack:

revolpress.substack.com/p/bram-e-gie...
August 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Maybe we really are living in the darkest timeline…

Bram E. Gieben writes about his book The Darkest Timeline (Revol Press) over a year since release.

revolpress.substack.com/p/bram-e-gie...
August 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Over a year on from the publication of his book The Darkest Timeline, on our dystopian present and dark future, the author and critic asks - have things gotten worse?

The Darkest Timeline can be bought a revolpress.com

revolpress.substack.com/p/bram-e-gie...
August 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What if psychiatrists diagnosed the problem with capitalism instead of labelling us?
August 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Full text from Adam Turl on the Revol Press substack:
revolpress.substack.com/p/on-ghosts-...
August 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
'The only way out is organization and struggle; to resurrect the ghost of collective self-emancipation.'

Full text from Adam Turl on the Revol Press substack:
revolpress.substack.com/p/on-ghosts-...
August 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Read Radical Jung and the New British Left on the Revol Press substack:

revolpress.substack.com/p/as-the-cro...
August 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM