Benedict Thorn

Trump, or Capital in the Oval Office

Trump, or Capital in the Oval Office

The moment was of course metaphysically necessary—that capital incarnate itself as man and come among us. The question we must ask rather is how this descent occurs, for that determines all that follows. Trump is not a pope and he has not come down amongst his...

Live blog: Warwick Summit on Protest

Live blog: Warwick Summit on Protest

We'll be liveblogging the Warwick Summit on Protest today from 16:00 UK time. The Summit was proposed by Warwick Law School's Centre for Human Rights in response to events on campus last term which saw the University summoning the police to a Free Education...

Thatcher: a wound reopens

Thatcher: a wound reopens

Last night in Brixton, London, George Sq. Glasgow, Easton in Bristol, Derry in Northern Ireland, and in pubs and working men's clubs across Britain, people cheered, raised a glass, partied, danced in the streets, to mark the death of Margaret Thatcher. Some people...

A note on power and responsibility

A note on power and responsibility

A short piece to mark just one example of the continuing intellectual hegemony of the banking/Thatcherism/Murdoch triad that infests British politics. Listening to the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, give an interview this morning to Evan Davis of the BBC, we heard...

The pillars of ignorance

The pillars of ignorance

Deleuze told us that for something to constitute an event, it must go all the way down. The death of the News of the World (soon to be resurrected as the undead Sun on Sunday) is not an event of itself, though it does constitute the sign of an event. This event,...