Unconsciousness raising
Thoughts on intersections, overlaps and antagonisms between psychoanalysis/psychiatry/psy-etc and left-wing political movements.
19 June 2026
Antigone in autumn
Antigone and 1970s West German cinema
29 May 2026
Reclaiming the collective unconscious
Against Carl Jung, the 'psychoanalytic fascist'
16 January 2026
Charlotte Corday's skull
Gender and political violence
31 October 2025
Oases of actuality
Communes and form (on Kristin Ross and Rachel Kushner)
17 October 2025
Coerced change
Robert Jay Lifton, 1926-2025
3 October 2025
World anti-fascist war
A postcard from China, 1945/2025
11 July 2025
Superman as symptom
On Mike Kelley's Kandors
17 January 2025
Swaddled minds
Soviet babies and Cold War theories of the 'Great Russian' mind
6 December 2024
After the rapture
This is an adapted snippet of a longer piece on endings that never end that I read at Arika in Glasgow as part of the event ‘Four Endings to Begin’.
2 August 2024
Against 'capacity'
Anyone who has been a member of a group chat dedicated to political organising in the past few years will probably be familiar with the idiom of ‘capacity’.
22 April 2024
The Nuclear Unconscious
it is not pathological to hope for a better future – for instance, for peace – and to strive for it, while recognizing how hard it is to attain
8 December 2023
in 2011
A while ago I was trying to reconstruct certain things about my own life.
20 November 2023
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: BURNOUT
The emotional experience of political defeat
21 July 2023
Dream tweets
In a recent moment of boredom I decided to collate my dream tweets, which stretch back to 2011.
7 July 2023
Weighs like a nightmare
Marx = Freud / Marx =/= Freud
23 June 2023
'Vomit it out of me'
Marion Milner at the zoo
9 June 2023
Solidarity of disappointment
Kate Millett's Flying
26 May 2023
Next as farce
Christina Stead’s I’m Dying Laughing
12 May 2023
Case histories from below
Class dynamics in the psychoanalytic consulting room
17 June 2022
Destruction, creation, inertia, revolution
Sabina Spielrein's ‘Destruction as the Cause of Coming into Being’