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.
The Libidinal Economy and the General Election
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.
Huel is #Cancelled
James Smith argues that Huel's "cancellation" of hunger makes it the perfect food for a cancelled culture.
Imagining the Socialist University
Ben Moore considers what the socialist university would look like, and why its needed.
The Favourite’s Lesson: Diachronic Masculinity, Synchronic Patriarchy
EDA editor Daniel Bristow considers the forms of patriarchy in this year's emblematic film
