Recording of a public talk in Leeds in which I discuss the philosophy of romantic desire and the ambivalent legacy of the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group. buzzsprout.com/2113237/144045…

An edited collection on Contemporary Political Thought and Alternative Policies by Nikos Erinakis and Yiannis Kouris, with some interesting political philosophers involved.

I'll be on sabbatical next year, roughly from January to May. Does anyone have any suggestions of schemes for visiting researchers at other institutions that might be worth looking into? I plan to work on socialist republicanism and/or the idea of slavery in political thought.

Wrote an obituary for the great JGA Pocock for The New Statesman

newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/12/…

I'm founding an academic campaign against sentences that start with a gerund

A revised, updated and improved version of my New Socialist article on Corbynism’s economic strategy is out now in Historical Materialism Journal A flavour below, dm for a copy or available here for those with access brill.com/view/journals/…

My article, “Alienated Dependence”, is now online. In it, I argue that we need to recover a Marxist take on the problem of social dependence, bringing it together with the critique of political economy. Thanks so much for reading it and sharing it!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

After my talk on abstract domination, someone suggested a fitting line from Brecht, along the lines of 'this crime has an address and a face'. Does anyone know where to find this, whether in English or German?

I'm giving a talk on socialist republicanism and Postone's account of abstract domination at Historical Materialism on Friday. I'll be around for the rest of the conference too if anyone wants to say hello.

Utterly shameful. Complete cowards

I have an article in The Conversation about how Adania Shibli's novel Minor Detail can help us understand the present situation in Palestine: theconversation.com/minor-detail-b…

Palestine solidarity rally in Edinburgh again this afternoon.

Protest at Holyrood this afternoon.

Huge march in Edinburgh this afternoon, all the way down the Royal Mile!

We may be witnessing the total obliteration of Gaza.

Political leaders refusing to speak out should feel eternal shame over the horror they are allowing to unfold.

Those of us who believe in peace cannot stay silent. We must say to the Palestinian people: you are not alone.

Please consider making a donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians to support their emergency response in Gaza: map.org.uk/donate/donatio…

“Pure panic everywhere you look.”

Inside the Gaza siege - a resident’s eyewitness report by Yousef Hammash.