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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With Boxing Day sales beginning, Jason Goldfarb gives a Lacanian reading of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, the sales, and consumerism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jon Bailes discusses the work-life balance, parenting or not, the myths of neoliberalism, and films from Bad Moms to The Road.
Daniel Bristow reads Joker via Simone de Beauvoir, considering its relationship to class consciousness.
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...
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.
Marc Farrant concocts a philosophy for the time being out of the mess of Brexit.
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.
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
Lucas Ballestín on the connections between the fashion industry and psychoanalysis, confronting why desire itself appears.
Daniel Bristow discusses the old gags of psychoanalysis, the comedy of Brexit, and Mark Fisher.
Isabel Millar discuss the Instagram-friendly bible in a Lacanian reading of how science, religion and capitalism appear as allies today.
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.
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.
Eliot Rosenstock discusses Warren's bizarre DNA test, and how it relates to the architecture of neoliberalism.
Isabel Millar on why its really Mary Berry and her cakes to blame for the great Brexit swindle.
Are we being taught to forget our Marx?
Brexit ought to be Britain’s reckoning with its history, but also its deeply undemocratic constitution, argues Adam Ganz.
In light of Google’s Stadia, Marijam Didžgalvytė discusses the possibilities for changing the modes of production in the videogaming industry, via Walter Benjamin.
Isabel Millar considers arguments for and against sex robots, and whether they confront the famous Lacanian maxim that "there is no sexual relation."
Ben Moore discusses freemium culture and the dystopian possibilities of 'paid extras' in the national health service and beyond, via Lukacs and Agamben.
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
Isabel Millar discusses the parallels between Baudrillard’s theories of technology and subjectivity and contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysis.
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.
James Smith argues that Huel's "cancellation" of hunger makes it the perfect food for a cancelled culture.
Ben Moore considers what the socialist university would look like, and why its needed.
EDA editor Daniel Bristow considers the forms of patriarchy in this year's emblematic film
