The Contraction of the West

The Contraction of the West

What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in the 16th century and expanded continuously until the 20th century. On the eve of World War I, about 90% of the globe was Western or Western-dominated: Europe, Russia, the...
Welcome to the shitshow

Welcome to the shitshow

‘Next time you go to the bathroom, there’s a reasonable chance the person in the cubicle next to you is scrolling through Instagram’, reported HuffPost in 2017.  Equally, Wired describe a very near future, in which ‘sensors might be embedded in your toilet...
Neoliberalism and the Accumulation of Ghost Laws

Neoliberalism and the Accumulation of Ghost Laws

Prudhoe ghost. Many people who have seen the picture believe the apparation has taken the form of a young girl. *Photo: David Wilkin Readers will be familiar with a certain argument for neoliberal government. By the end of the 1970s, we were told, welfare states had...