The article interrogates the concept of Multitude in capitalist society and challenges the simple notion of social exclusion as an operative force in contemporary social formations and their spatial dispositions. The Shadow will be offered as a spatial and psychosocial relational horizon of differentiation systemically inscribed into the social…[Read more]

The household as a social formation is being assigned a renewed function in
the provision of social welfare via neoliberal austerity politics. Government inaction regarding
housing provision is forcing millions of young adults into “parental co-habitation”. In
contrast to the dominant ideological view of the family as a school of liberty thr…[Read more]

Given the transformation in the government of academic life over recent decades, the
article attempts to derive a political critique of the changing psychosocial conditions of academic
life via a historical juxtaposition with the nomos of the labour camp in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag
Archipelago. The aim is to address the need to think beyond n…[Read more]

This article attempts a properly critical and political analysis of the “police power” immanent to the form and logic of academic rankings, and which is reproduced in the extant academic literature generated around them. In contrast to the democratising claims made of rankings, this police power short-circuits the moment of democratic politics and…[Read more]

Do we not find that the repetitive deployment of certain phrases
and words in academic language entails a conceptualisation of
meaning into objects that are thereafter encountered daily not as
thoughts or ideas but merely as a socio-cultural force? Is it not
necessary to identify and illuminate them, and to contrive some
sort of resistance to…[Read more]

A critical analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of social relations in the British state.

Review of two recent works of urban studies research in the context of critical urban theory.

Over 30 years of strategic reconfiguration, Global Cities have proven
themselves productive of metropolitan oligarchies of various hues
that dominate the territories of their respective states. Set against
the ‘ecological contradictions’ of historical capitalism, the article
presents the Global City formation as a historically particular pos…[Read more]

Discipline and Punish has been the seminal text for students of the rationality of disciplinary power. In recent years, critical scholarship has become increasingly keen to move analytically beyond the normative mode of disciplinary power. As such, D&P is increasingly marginalized as a text, in favour of Foucault’s later works. In this d…[Read more]