Culture and Ideas
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Relational and Atomised: Rethinking the Chinese Issue of Meritocracy and Solidarity
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When academic worth is measured by scores and rankings, creativity gives way to calculation.
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What’s Tomorrow Worth?
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Through forestry, finance, and Chilean mining law, ‘Discounting the Future’ uncovers the far-reaching political consequences of valuing tomorrow through economics.
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Repackaging Faith: Analysing the Tradwife Revival
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Can the tradwife movement be understood as faith, feminism’s backlash, or a symptom of modernity itself?
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The Authoritarian Apologia Industry: How Democratic Fatigue Fuels Dangerous Revisionism
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Is democracy being scrutinized—or slowly abandoned?
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When AI Becomes the Absolute: How Our Beliefs Turn Technology into Religion
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Is AI replacing religion, or is it simply revealing how deeply human beings need something to believe in?
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‘Lawful But Awful’: Humanising the Digital State
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Today, the failure of our digital institutions is driving us backwards. When the public sphere is governed by an opaque and arbitrary algorithm, trust collapses.
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The Politics of Technological Pessimism
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Ashcroft’s book reminds us that technology is never just a tool, but a political force capable of shaping the future as much as threatening it.
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Vibing over Communicating: Memeified Extremism in the Digital Age
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When memes replace manifestos, how does extremism communicate?
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AI is Replacing Therapists. Are Priests Next?
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Can a machine offer moral guidance? The rise of AI suggests that society may soon test whether spiritual authority can be simulated.
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‘Problematising Genealogy is to History what Psychoanalysis is to the Practical Self-Relation’: An Interview with Amy Allen for the Oxford Political Review
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Grappling with the most pressing political topics requires us to reflect on how we are situated in and implicated in the relations of power we are trying to understand and critique.