Every Thursday throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Everyday Analysis will be hosting political debates, guests and questions on Zoom.
EVENT: Which Lives Matter with Chardine Taylor-Stone
The Necessary Fall of Edward Colston
Toby Shields considers the arguments made against taking statues down and why these are necessary acts towards a progressive political future.
EVENT(S): Politicizing a Crisis livestreams — what lies ahead
A huge month of debate on the left's most difficult questions, on the EDA: Politicizing a Crisis livestream — take a look at what's coming up.
Virtual reality as resistance: Stardew Valley and the queer temporality of game-worlds
Amidst the rise of Animal Crossing, Zoe Ereni considers the pastoral gaming simulator as a genre we turn to in the clutches of capitalism and crisis.
Coronavirus culture war: what the Tories really want
Tom Whyman on the COVID culture wars, what the tories really want, and how staying in and going out can both be acts of rebellion.
Back to the front: the perversion in sending Britain back to work
Daniel Bristow on the perverse way in which the UK is being sent back to work, via Heidegger, Adorno and Zizek.
The Covid Narratives
What story is being told by Covid-19? Leo Cookman considers how narrative theory can help us makes sense of the pandemic and how the political battle to determine the story of Covid must be waged.
“You know Homer, it’s very easy to criticize!” – a Hegelian justification for playing the blame game
Stuart Bennett on the why the current crisis means it real is time to start playing the blame game.
EVENTS: Ruling Déclassé with Dasha Nekrasova – Thursday 14th May at 8.30pm (UK Time)
Every Thursday throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Everyday Analysis will be hosting political debates, guests and questions on Zoom.
Artists and Workers Isolate and Unite!
Mike Watson sets out a path for an artist's response to the pandemic and how it might provide unexpected energy for the political Left.
There’s Nothing Exceptional to the State of Exception: An Analysis of Race and Media Representation Amidst the Covid-19 Outbreak
Dan Bristow, Tom Hobson, and Kaajal Modi discuss the states of exception that have been imposed across Europe, the racist imaginaries surrounding the pandemic and why its more important than ever to make sure this crisis is seen as deeply political.
What’s in a saying? Debunking five lexical myths in the age of coronavirus
Stuart Bennett examines a selection of everyday sayings and exposes their falsehood in the context of social and economic inequality illuminated by the coronavirus.
Why We Criticize Jordan Peterson
Marion Trejo and Matt McManus discuss the relationship between Jordan Peterson and the theoretical Left, and why this might be important in facing down the rise of the fascist Right.
Divided Subjectivity/Divided Subjection: Class Analysis in an Epidemic
Daniel Bristow on the need for class politics in the midst of coronavirus and why we need to remember the often exploited key worker long after the end of the crisis.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Response in the UK
A virus is exposing how much Western society is permeated with influential people who have deluded themselves into thinking that their ability to manipulate words, images, and sounds gives them the ability to control reality itself. Thomas Hobson and Daniel Bristow consider.
What is a Strike in 2020?
In this statement of solidarity for the current UCU strikes taking place across the country, we include a new updated version of Daniel Bristow's 2013 'What is a Strike?' along with a reflection on the 2020 action by James Smith.
Resentment Politics: The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism
Matt McManus discusses the rise of post-modern conservatism and how - for the American Left in particular - 2020 is a vital year in the battle against it.
How Should We Behave in Class?
Jingyi Wan discusses AI monitoring students movement in Chinese classrooms, and how from a Foucauldian perspective, things might be even worse in the Western world of performing lecturers.
RHUL Digital Research Series 2020 – Rob Gallagher – Ludic Lives: Auto/Biographical Videogames
Rob Gallagher discusses how avant-garde developers have reimagined the videogame as a vehicle for individual life stories and personal experiences, questioning the idea that these stories are inherently progressive.
The Libidinal Economy and the General Election
Zoe Ereni considers the libidinal structures of the general election result, the apparently apathetic political generation and the dangers of forgetting the real economy as the site of our struggles.
After ‘The Day After’: On Anti-Consumerist Consumerism
With Boxing Day sales beginning, Jason Goldfarb gives a Lacanian reading of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, the sales, and consumerism.
Election Responses from Everyday Analysis: 7
In response to the political events of this bleak week, the editors at the Everyday Analysis Collective will be offering their reflections, putting their individual viewpoints into conversation within this serialised report. Here, Mike Watson reacts.
Election Responses from Everyday Analysis: 6
In response to the political events of this bleak week, the editors at the Everyday Analysis Collective will be offering their reflections, putting their individual viewpoints into conversation within this serialised report. Here, Alfie Bown reflects.
Election Responses from Everyday Analysis: 5
In response to the political events of this bleak week, the editors at the Everyday Analysis Collective will be offering their reflections, putting their individual viewpoints into conversation within this serialised report. Here, Ben Moore gives his thoughts.
Election Responses from Everyday Analysis: 4
In response to the political events of this bleak week, the editors at the Everyday Analysis Collective will be offering their reflections, putting their individual viewpoints into conversation within this serialised report. Here, Isabel Millar responds.
Election Responses from Everyday Analysis: 3
In response to the political events of this bleak week, the editors at the Everyday Analysis Collective will be offering their reflections, putting their individual viewpoints into conversation within this serialised report. Here, Jaice Sara Titus reflects.
Election Responses from Everyday Analysis: 2
In response to the political events of this bleak week, the editors at the Everyday Analysis Collective will be offering their reflections, putting their individual viewpoints into conversation within this report. Here, Dan Bristow reacts.
Election Responses from Everyday Analysis: 1
In response to the political events of this bleak week, the editors at the Everyday Analysis Collective will be offering their reflections, putting their individual viewpoints into conversation within this report. In this piece, James Smith responds.
The Neoliberal Parent Trap: Family and Its Anti-Social Fantasies
Jon Bailes discusses the work-life balance, parenting or not, the myths of neoliberalism, and films from Bad Moms to The Road.
Must We Burn Joker?
Daniel Bristow reads Joker via Simone de Beauvoir, considering its relationship to class consciousness.
Quantifying Matters of the Heart: smartwatches, desire, and the digital city
London, a soggy spring morning. Indifferent commuter faces insipidly glow under the white glare of mobile phone screens, and tired eyes glaze over as soft beats hum through wireless headphones...
Fat Boy Slim’s Greta and the Iterability of Affect
Everyday Analysis editors Ben Moore and Alfie Bown reflect on the depoliticising effect of a worn-out old DJ sampling the speech of a significant young activist.
The Unbearable Lightness of Brexit: A Philosophy for the Time Being
Marc Farrant concocts a philosophy for the time being out of the mess of Brexit.
Politactical Conversations: Responses to the EU Parliament Vote
In a week which will see a new Prime Minister emerge, Everyday Analysis editors Ben Moore and Daniel Bristow reflect on the aftermath of the European Elections and what influence they are having on UK politics today.
Artwashing : The Venice Biennale as Innoculation Against Guilt
Mike Watson discusses the Venice Biennale's treatment of art and nation, and its role in the exclusion of non-westerners from the profits of empire
The Seducer’s Diary: Fashion, Desire, and Psychoanalysis
Lucas Ballestín on the connections between the fashion industry and psychoanalysis, confronting why desire itself appears.
Brexit Ha Ha
Daniel Bristow discusses the old gags of psychoanalysis, the comedy of Brexit, and Mark Fisher.
God isn’t Unconscious, He’s on Instagram
Isabel Millar discuss the Instagram-friendly bible in a Lacanian reading of how science, religion and capitalism appear as allies today.
Normal People, digital capitalism, and the anxiety of mortality
Izzy Dann argues that Will Self's aversion to normal stuff shows a lot more about neoliberalism (and himself) than it does about the things we like to criticize.
To Save Multicultural Liberalism, Build the Wall!: on Joe Kennedy’s Authentocrats
J.A. Smith reflects on a book that keeps getting more relevant the stupider politics becomes. Authentocrats: Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness was published by Repeater Books last year.
Elizabeth Warren and Darwinian Disavowal
Eliot Rosenstock discusses Warren's bizarre DNA test, and how it relates to the architecture of neoliberalism.
The Banality of Treacle: Mary Berry and the Empire of the Bun
Isabel Millar on why its really Mary Berry and her cakes to blame for the great Brexit swindle.
Spectres Haunting Sectors: Crypto-currencies and Immaterial Conditions in Modern Class Division
Are we being taught to forget our Marx?
When the English Began to Hate
Brexit ought to be Britain’s reckoning with its history, but also its deeply undemocratic constitution, argues Adam Ganz.
Towards an Ethical Gaming Console
In light of Google’s Stadia, Marijam Didžgalvytė discusses the possibilities for changing the modes of production in the videogaming industry, via Walter Benjamin.
Sex-Bots: Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?
Isabel Millar considers arguments for and against sex robots, and whether they confront the famous Lacanian maxim that "there is no sexual relation."
Pay to Win or Pay to Live?: Fear of a Freemium NHS
Ben Moore discusses freemium culture and the dystopian possibilities of 'paid extras' in the national health service and beyond, via Lukacs and Agamben.
What Does the Intellectual Dark Web Know About the Enlightenment?
Jordan Peterson demonstrates how you can make a career out of defending “Enlightenment values”, while showing no interest in the fate of Enlightenment writers, argues Aaron R. Hanlon
Baudrillard: From the Self-Driving Car to the Ex-timacy of Communication?
Isabel Millar discusses the parallels between Baudrillard’s theories of technology and subjectivity and contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysis.
#HuaweiWars: Tech’s New Iron Curtain
Trump attacks Huawei and Reddit users rebel against Tencent investment, but Alfie Bown argues that talk of a tech Cold War is all a smokescreen for an intensifying platform capitalism.
