On myths, masks, and a sensuous materialism. Despite the amount of academic reading and citations[…] it should also be remembered that...

What boredom means, on Voltaire and tedium. Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery,...

An Anti*Capitalist Resistance roundup. Three new(ish) pieces of mine available on the A*CR. Capitalism without a Human Face is a review...

A further appraisal of web 2.0, the left, and online fascism Some time ago I took the decision to leave twitter. I did this for...

The fourth instalment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...

A look back and forwards at The New. How long ago was The New? Some twenty odd years. There is a vast ocean of time between right now and...

The third installment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look back at various third way ideologies,...

Pascal, Marx and sitting still... All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Putting to one side...

Towards a genuine reckoning. Looking out of a window in West London in my mid-thirties I see myself looking out of another window in...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay accepts that the crisis is ahead of us and has...

From Centrist Dads to Zombie Politics Conservative MP wins Hartlepool by-election, the news this May’s Friday 7th. Like all political...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look at Andrey Platonov’s essay ‘Factory of...

Memory, Resistance, Hope Memory is short. A political truism, trotted out as uncontroversial. A piece of cynical wisdom, expressed with a...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a look at time for Marx, Ricœur and Hudis;...

The second installment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is about crises, Covid-19 and what shows through...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay is about apocolypse, revolution and Robinson...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay, written in COVID-19's earlier days, explores the...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay is about the need to imagine beyond our current...