PinnedThe Nazi Origins of Horseshoe TheoryThe idea of “Horseshoe Theory” has been floating around in the English language since at least the 1980s, if not earlier, with ebbs and…Mar 5, 20221Mar 5, 20221
PinnedIdeology and PracticeThis is another long-form piece that will be published in sections for ease of reading and writing both. I have already trailed some of…Jan 18, 2020Jan 18, 2020
The continuing appeal of the deficit modelIn 2016 the journal Public Understanding of Science¹ published six pieces chosen as the winners of an essay competition to answer the…Apr 5Apr 5
Towards a Narratological Approach to Ideology AnalysisThe dominant model in contemporary ideology studies is Michael Freeden’s concept-centred “morphological” model. Subsequent scholars like…Oct 26, 2023Oct 26, 2023
Notes on counter-extremismThe following are some notes I originally made in response to an interview by the hosts of Decoding the Gurus podcast with Julia Ebner, a…Oct 8, 2023Oct 8, 2023
The ideological classes and the lumpenproletariatMarx left us with a puzzle concerning what he thought about class. On the one hand he opens the Communist Manifesto with the line “The…Feb 21, 2023Feb 21, 2023
The proletariat as structured productIn the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis certain terms of art that had been restricted to the niche world of financial engineering…Jan 15, 2023Jan 15, 2023
Regimen, Hegemony, AutonomyGramsci framed the relation between ideology and class forces at the level of state and civil society through the concept of hegemony. Like…Jan 15, 2023Jan 15, 2023
From the Fall of Saigon to the Fall of LehmanChapter from AK Press “The End of the World as We Know It?”Jan 9, 2023Jan 9, 2023
