Earlier this week I went to Paris to see the Jacques-Louis David exhibition at the Louvre but the Louvre workers were on strike (solidarity!) so no David but I remembered I once wrote something on Charlotte Corday that talks a bit about The Death of Marat hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/charlotte-...

Balzac says log off

‘We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness,’ writes Akshi Singh in a new column reflecting on the book ‘A Philosophy of Shame’ by Frédéric Gros.⁠ ⁠ Read the full article: artreview.com/a-philosophy...

listening to a man on the train explain to his silent gf why one safdie brother is good and one safdie brother is bad at great length

nothing infuriates the average paid political commentator more than the fact that every 15 year old baby leftist doing earnestly naive posts about 'Amerikkka' at any point in the last 30 years has better analysis with a sounder grounding in the facts than they do.

wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social “If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.” artreview.com/rub-it-bette...

wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social “If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.” artreview.com/rub-it-bette...

really love that Die My Love is about a writer with writers’ block who doesn’t even seem to own a laptop

I want to read an extremely long, elegantly written and overly theoretical essay about Bella Freud's podcast Fashion Neurosis please thank you

Agitprop Cabaret! Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Very excited that my book has been translated into Spanish!! 🤯

If you're wondering whether academics have written on 'asylum hotels', I can point you in the direction of Martina Tazzioli's work on refugee carcerality & value extraction in the UK, Greece & Italy. See esp. section on financialised asylum accommodation in the UK. dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...

I went to China in early September and kept accidentally seeing and reading things that all seemed to relate to the Second World War in some way - I tried to write about it 'World anti-fascist war: A postcard from China, 1945/2025' hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/world-anti...

this essay by Akshi Singh for @Parapraxis_Mag is so good! On anti-colonial political violence, the violence of colonialism, psychoanalysis, political and psychic repression... parapraxismagazine.com/articles/unc...

bidoun.org/articles/hou... Ouf

Wael Al-Dahdouh speaking to journalists around the world: "Where are you?"

I knew I'd heard of Alex Davies Jones before novaramedia.com/2025/06/12/p...

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

was a real thrill to interview @reproutopia.bsky.social about their new book 'Enemy Feminisms', along with Victoria Browne and @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social, in the new issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...

the Spring 2025 issue of Variant is online! feat poetry by Mira Mattar, Danny Hayward on Marina Vishmidt, Hussein Mitha on Palestine and the arts in Scotland, Joey Simons on the Glasgow Housing Struggles Archive, Shona Macnaughton on feminist healthcare... variant.org.uk

one for the Gillian Rose heads!

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly, yet it is not; it is this world, and what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras.”

For the latest issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social Victoria Browne, Rahul Rao and I interviewed Sophie Lewis about their new book Enemy Feminisms and they gave some very interesting and thoughtful answers to our questions www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...

RP2.19 out now! Flora Renz on For Women Scotland & the UK Supreme Court Elena Baglioni on reproductive subsumption Robert Lucas Scott on Gillian Rose FTC Manning on real abstraction Francesco Anselmetti on Ghassan Kanafani Interview with Sophie Lewis Paulin Hountondji obit www.radicalphilosophy.com

What a kicker!

I wrote this essay on psychoanalytic interpretations of the 1968 student uprisings at Columbia university @parapraxismag.bsky.social - students who opposed the university's complicity in the US war in Vietnam insisted society was 'crazy' rather than them www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/a-c...

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

I was gripped by the Mike Kelley at Tate Modern earlier this year — and this by @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social on Kelley’s Kandors, memory, melancholic objects, False Memory Syndrome, Sylvia Plath, Ruth Leys &c is great

Currently reading—Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social. Absolutely exceptional. Grab a copy yourself: bookshop.org/a/23377/9781...

I wrote something about Mike Kelley's Kandors - and about Superman as a symptom - after seeing them glowing at the Tate Modern earlier this year hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/superman-a...

‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

Enjoy :) We don't get enough good news. And this is really good www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...

I can’t compete with this

find it funny that the only profession/field that people in my family have been involved in over multiple generations is what I guess you'd call show business (music hall variety acts > Butlins singers > tap dance instructors > understudies in touring musical theatre shows)

"Gaza is not the subject of the next paper. Its writers and artists are not bait for a new grant or fellowship. Its murdered children are not the subject of the next ethnographic study, or the next anthology or the next art installation or digital humanities project."

‘Twentieth-century fascism appears to have little in common with today’s leading far-right movements.’ @trillingual.bsky.social analyses the origins and discontents of the far-right populist groups gaining ground across the world: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#OtD 28 May 1871 the Paris commune, widely considered the most significant early working-class uprising for socialism, was crushed after a massacre of thousands of people to regain the city. Learn more in this compilation of writings by participants: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

'Airless Spaces is an exercise in paying attention... Alongside the litany of institutional failure and neglect, Firestone also observes how social reproduction and hospitalisation interact' Helen Charman reviews AIRLESS SPACES @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/shulamith-fi...

I have an essay in this issue on three psychoanalytic responses to the 1968 Columbia University uprisings - from horrified conservatives who said campuses had become "enclaves for the rule of the id" to sympathetic liberals inspired by student activists to become more radical

4th anniversary of Kenmure Street today. Much discourse since has sought to absorb the day into a cosy "People Make Glasgow" celebration of spontaneous local spirit. Important to remember it was a victory made possible by people doing the long hidden work of anti-raids training and network building.

it's Kenmure Street day! Solidarity forever!

“The present condition of the world, if accepted as it is, if approached with anything short of determined impatience to change it utterly, renders every value meaningless” - John Berger I’m so obsessed with this book 🔥

In 1925, Berta Lask wrote a play to mark the 400th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War. In it, she imagines Thomas Müntzer waking up every hundred years to address the contemporary political situation. Sam Dolbear has translated it - happy May Day 🌈🌈🌈 www.rabrab.net/titles/muntzer

the full season of WANDA & BEYOND: THE WORLD OF BARBARA LODEN is now live on the BFI Southbank site, booking begins May 9th and book/season launch on June 3rd. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

I wrote about "fag/hag" and "Fag Hag" - two recent books about friendship & comradeship pinned to different decades, for @hnnhcrvlh.bsky.social at @radical-philosophy.bsky.social journal. It's Miesseroff on the one hand, and Lane-McKinley & Fox on the other: www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/u...

I'm obsessed with this fact