📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 -- celebrating Walter Benjamin's 130th birthday with a truly cursed journey into the experience economy... from yuppie ballpit bars to the commodification of the Holocaust, it's a wild ride with our spiritual godfather https://t.co/GSXl7Kw3dV
I'm doing two free events in November! One a guided walk of One Tree Hill's riotous history, and one a free MULTITUDES talk @UniWestminster with @andrewsmithwest - find out about both here https://t.co/jDyOB3RB4d
🟡There is an extract from MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World here in @jacobin! The book is out on Tuesday, you can order it now from the @VersoBooks site https://t.co/yuglPJDMBf
📢 New episode!! An absolutely riveting, rollercoaster ride through the history of the climate crisis with @alicebell, via a jar of toxic Euston Road air https://t.co/YE6uNWMbWD
The English language is full of pejoratives for large groups of people: mob mentality. Herd behaviour. Crowd contagion. But the idea that large groups of people are up to no good is a convenient fantasy for the powers that be, explains @danhancox. https://t.co/sljICWB65T
I've written a new Substack post about the Meditteranean instinct to throw delightful, all-ages, free community parties all year round (festa majors, carnavals, etc), and asking Why We Can't Have Nice Things like this in Britain?? https://t.co/0TgvU1XLbN
📢 NEW EPISODE: Why does everyone, across the political spectrum, push the idea that hard work has any moral value? From IG hustle culture and CEO Mindset, to modern slavery, bullshit jobs and affective labour at Pret, it's time to knuckle down! https://t.co/y0VJeP2mzm
📢 NEW EPISODE: Why does everyone, across the political spectrum, push the idea that hard work has any moral value? From IG hustle culture and CEO Mindset, to modern slavery, bullshit jobs and affective labour at Pret, it's time to knuckle down! https://t.co/y0VJeP2mzm
@ali1m@quendergeer@SimonXIX@bierkonceagain Ah cheers for the tag! A good book that nuances crap towns is Owen Hatherley's 'A New Kind of Bleak' which we also discuss on the episode: https://t.co/RfnbIA6rJ2