Reflecting on the political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Jürgen Habermas suggested that ‘existential uncertainty is now spreading globally and simultaneously […] There was never so much knowing about our not-knowing and about the constraint to act and live in [...]
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The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’: Socio-Spatial Struggles in London between the ‘Merely Wealthy’ and the ‘Super-Rich’
In the decade between 2007 and 2017 London changed fundamentally. This lecture is about how the actions of the [...]
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‘Keeping up with Our Rated Selves: On Credit, Sharing, and Self-Esteem’
The renowned philosopher and cultural theorist, Michel Feher, will present a double-lecture on the social and affective implications of the increasing assetisation of the economy.
If governing [...]
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Join us at Gleebooks for the launch of three ground-breaking books on the contemporary assetisation of the economy on Monday 15 April 2019 at 6:30pm.
1) Michel Feher’s Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age
The hegemony of finance compels a new [...]
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A Debate Between Jim Stanford and Michel Feher
The deleterious social consequence of the contemporary asset economy are well-documented. Households are shouldering levels of mortgage debt that appear increasingly unsustainable both to themselves and the wider economy. Alternatively, a [...]
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In a famous passage in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, the following exchange takes place between Alice and Humpty Dumpty:
`I don’t know what you mean by “glory”,’ Alice [...]
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