Hegemony Now launch event, today, 6:30pm.

Étienne Balibar & Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss: Bloch, Foucault, Jameson, Marx & Engels, Wright, Zapatista, Alex Williams & @n_srnck blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/1-1…

The power that digital technologies wield over the world has to be confronted, but their democratic potential should never be forgotten. Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams on the power of the platform. newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/10/…

Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it? Watch Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams talk it out...

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose expression of Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams's Hegemony Now thesis than these t-shirts x.com/elonmusk/statu…

The Musk-Twitter apocalypse is a symptom of a much bigger crisis. To avoid a bleak future we have to bring the big platforms under our control. Jeremy Gilbert Alex Williams | openDemocracy ow.ly/jag250LUpn3

FREE EVENT w/ Jeremy Gilbert, and Alex Williams in conversation with Jacob Mukherjee, @NatalieFenton1 and Will Davies! Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it?

FREE EVENT w/ Jeremy Gilbert, and Alex Williams in conversation with Jacob Mukherjee, @NatalieFenton1 and Will Davies! Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it?

Imagine Celine Dion releasing an album on Kranky. Now multiply that thought by a factor of 1000. That’s the power of #music.

Further reading: Gramsci (not on Twitter 🙄), plus two recent books - Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams ‘s Hegemony Now, and Hegemony by James Martin. Full references: tinyurl.com/keywordheg (3/4)

🎈It’s publication day for Left Feminisms: conversations on the personal and political🎈 Big thanks to everyone involved! Read more about it here: lwbooks.co.uk/product/left-f…

I will be talking on digital hegemony and negative solidarity next Tuesday at the LSE, should you be interested in such things.

Very happy to have signed a contract with U of MN Press for my next book - “Everything is Police” in their brilliant Forerunners series

In 1984 Director of Central Intelligence William Casey asked his deputies to investigate the threat to national interests posed by 'words, verbal formulations & concepts.' I finally managed to get a hardcopy of proceedings from the '85 conference that was organised as a result:

Just in case anyone thought that security-political threat construction around 'semantic threats' ("weaponised information") was a new thing.

Norwich people - this event is on Saturday (just a few tix left so be quick). I'll be 'in conversation' with Alex Williams about his & Jeremy Gilbert's book Hegemony Now, and with @prentoulis about her book Left Populism in Europe. Plus James Meadway Keir Milburn eventbrite.co.uk/e/norwich-tran…

This is the most important news today. It contains a very simply message. The image you have, that guides your everyday actions, about how you and your children's lives will work out is wrong. Yet, you'll struggle to find it reported in a newspaper or on broadcast news shows.

Calculating Hegemony Thursday November 2nd @ 1PM UK Time, online: essex-university.zoom.us/j/98321686219 and in NTC.2.04, University of Essex Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams In collaboration with the Department of Sociology essex.ac.uk/events/2023/11… Jeremy Gilbert Alex Williams

Half-Life 2 - 20th Anniversary Update details half-life.com/en/halflife2/2… -New documentary -Ep1 & 2 now in base game -Dev commentary -Steam Workshop -Various game updates Full notes in the link