An ecocritical thinkpiece on the position of pigeons as disruptive urban agents, and a review of historian Nancy Isenberg's 'White Trash'. Keep Reading
Cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (2017) provides a pessimistic view of the status of freedom in modern society. He argues, neoliberal politics coupled with technological innovations have resulted in the age of psychopolitics: the subjugation of the mind. A spectre is haunting Byung-Chul Han – the spectre of Foucault.… Keep Reading