The Climate Wager: Evaluating Three Strategies to Prevent Eco-CollapseThe question of whether or not we will avoid climate catastrophe — a catastrophe which, in the death grip of business-as-usual, continues…Mar 24, 2022Mar 24, 2022
Two Essays on Contemporary CapitalismThese essays were written as part of my final undergraduate examination on the module ‘Global Capitalism’ at Cambridge University. They…Mar 24, 2022Mar 24, 2022
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, 2021Oct 26, 2021
Domination, Democracy, and The End of HistoryThere is a philosophical problematic — which runs from Hegel, to Marx, to Post-Marxists like Chantal Mouffe — about the status of social…Sep 17, 2021Sep 17, 2021
‘Fuck 2020’, Or, On the Fetishism of the StarsThere 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, 2021Aug 18, 2021
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, 2021Aug 11, 2021
Freedom Exists, and it Makes it’s Demands1. 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, 2021Aug 8, 2021
Is the Whole False? Thinking Adorno’s Pessimism Through E.O. WrightI 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, 2021Jul 13, 2021
Culture War as Doxic ConflictIf you want to see a masterclass in the Culture War™, watch Nick Ferrari clashing ‘with Black Lives Matter activist Femi Nylander over…Jun 9, 2021Jun 9, 2021
Chairman Fred and Political RealismEveryone should go watch Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). It is a punchy, sharpened, and clarifying piece of cinema. The two central…Jun 7, 2021Jun 7, 2021