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Trey Taylor

The Climate Wager: Evaluating Three Strategies to Prevent Eco-Collapse

The question of whether or not we will avoid climate catastrophe — a catastrophe which, in the death grip of business-as-usual, continues…

Mar 24, 2022

The Climate Wager: Evaluating Three Strategies to Prevent Eco-Collapse

Mar 24, 2022

Trey Taylor

Two Essays on Contemporary Capitalism

These essays were written as part of my final undergraduate examination on the module ‘Global Capitalism’ at Cambridge University. They…

Mar 24, 2022

Mar 24, 2022

Trey Taylor

First Cow (2019)

Lush cinematography, shot by Christopher Blauvelt in 4:3, frames this tender tale of friendship and entrepreneurship amidst the undergrowth…

Oct 26, 2021

First Cow (2019)

Oct 26, 2021

Trey Taylor

Domination, Democracy, and The End of History

There is a philosophical problematic — which runs from Hegel, to Marx, to Post-Marxists like Chantal Mouffe — about the status of social…

Sep 17, 2021

Sep 17, 2021

Trey Taylor

‘Fuck 2020’, Or, On the Fetishism of the Stars

There were no fireworks last year, since there were no revellers to meet them. As Sky News confirmed on the first morning of 2021…

Aug 18, 2021

‘Fuck 2020’, Or, On the Fetishism of the Stars

Aug 18, 2021

Trey Taylor

The Nightingale (2018)

‘Do you have bad men like that?’, inquires Clare (Aisling Franciosi), an Irish convict, to aboriginal tracker, Billy (Baykali Ganambarr)…

Aug 11, 2021

The Nightingale (2018)

Aug 11, 2021

Trey Taylor

Freedom Exists, and it Makes it’s Demands

1. There is no foundational normativity, no way I can convince you objectively that Freedom is better than Order, no way I can settle those…

Aug 8, 2021

Aug 8, 2021

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Is the Whole False? Thinking Adorno’s Pessimism Through E.O. Wright

I am highly sympathetic to the philosophy of Theodor Adorno. It is for this reason that I have tended to turn a blind-eye to some of the…

Jul 13, 2021

Is the Whole False? Thinking Adorno’s Pessimism Through E.O. Wright

Jul 13, 2021

Trey Taylor

Culture War as Doxic Conflict

If you want to see a masterclass in the Culture War™, watch Nick Ferrari clashing ‘with Black Lives Matter activist Femi Nylander over…

Jun 9, 2021

Culture War as Doxic Conflict

Jun 9, 2021

Trey Taylor

Chairman Fred and Political Realism

Everyone should go watch Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). It is a punchy, sharpened, and clarifying piece of cinema. The two central…

Jun 7, 2021

Chairman Fred and Political Realism

Jun 7, 2021

Trey Taylor

Trey Taylor

22. BA Political Theory and Sociology, Cambridge University. Currently studying an MA in Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory at Kingston University.

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