A media theory and history blog diagramming how media form assemblages of people, populations, technologies, meanings, and sensations. The evolution of these assemblages, their non-linear dynamics, their affects, and self-organizing capacities are what is explored in these postings.
Three clear tasks lay before the UK, according to Andy Burnham, who gave his inaugural address yesterday, setting out Manchesterism in place, and maybe even Burnhamism in person. What are these three tasks? Give local councils control over essential utilities, like water, housing, energy, transport, the way, as mayor, Burnham did with the busses in [ ]
The central contradiction around race and nation staged with Trump-like panache (I jest) on GB News night after night, and after every racialised tragedy , highlights the racial structures of both contemporary news media in the UK and its national political discourse. The people s channel tells us Patrick Christy, Alex Armstrong, Dewbs and Co, Nigel [ ]
This post considers recent Marxist (dialectical) and potentialising diagrammatics of race as and beyond real abstraction . In the chapter that I am writing for a collection on race across the disciplines, I am beginning with a consideration of the influential thesis of Bhandar and Toscano of race as a real abstraction (2015), we will then [ ]
We will have danced through a series of seminars on what I won t have called Revolutionary Speculative Fiction , in which the sleep of western reason gives birth to monsters composed of technoperceptual assemblages that strike the senses with the full force of monstrosity. What, first, do we mean here by speculative (linked to fabulation and [ ]
I witnessed together with others as a collective act Rememberment , a devastating lecture performance by Jasbir Puar and Dima Srouji on the coloniality of gender and the genocide ongoing in Palestine. The description of the intervention performed previously at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Los Angeles provided by the artists reads: What does the coloniality of [ ]
If the grounds of late fascism (cf. Banaji, 2016, 2024; Toscano, 2023; Sadaawi, 2025, S. Hall) in the UK have been prepared by both liberals and conservatives (the fascist political economic totality) for the past three decades, we could do no better towards an affective diagramming of UK s changing abstract machine of fascism it seems [ ]
…If the people of India breed too fast, it’s no concern of ours. We’re supposed to feel sorry for them because they’re starving. Well, some of us don’t feel sorry: we feel glad. Let them starve, let them die. Let them starve at least, or… Strike! Strike!…built factories, sent them tanks and tractors, helped them build [ ]
The immediation of race racing, the techno-ontology of race in its modes of becoming, is entangled in the question of the variable relationship between the technical, value, and organic compositions of capital. Prove it. Alas, it s not something one can produce a mathematical proof for, as if immediation, technology, exchange value and race could be [ ]
We asked with students in a seminar last year, How to do things with Attention? This year in collective study we will Attend to Erasure. If the Palestinian people have been resisting erasure for over a hundred years, what is the role of ‘theory’ in that erasure and in that resistance? What forms of solidarity [ ]
In this post, I will start collating notes about Affect, Anti-Racist Intersectionality, and Kant s philosophical system. I want to define what I mean by Anti-racist/postcolonial intersectionality. This idea seems so long ago now. Now, in this time of genocide in Gaza. What can intersectional or Marxist analysis do in opposing the genocide in Gaza, and [ ]