A reply to Mark Fisher on magical voluntarism Short article exploring the idea of magical voluntarism and how it relates to questions of organisation.
Unproductive bodies, part 1: narcotisation of dependency A schematic look at positive psychology's deployment within the UK's workfare regime and the…
The nervousness of politics A brief look at Plan C/ the Institute for Precarious Consciousness's recent theses on anxiety. The claim that anxiety is the hegemonic affect of…
Rhythms Part of the series on the society of stimulation, this post introduces the idea of rhythms as theoretical machines and political tools of capital and workers.
The society of stimulation An introduction to the idea of a society of stimulation that produces hyperaroused bodies which, unable to take the strain, become anxious and…
Subjectivity as kinesthetic A speculative theory of subjectivity that begins from the assumption that there is no inside, specifically no "depth interiority". Originally…
A brief history of cognitive behavioural therapy, part 1 First part of a brief history of cognitive behavioural therapy, focussing on the role of…
Psychopolice order What will the announcement that community psychiatric nurses are to be posted in criminal justice settings do to psychiatric services and…
The madness of austerity: Simon Stevens's NHS A brief look at what the appointment of Simon Stevens as head of NHS England means for mental health services in context.
Thomas Szasz and the antipsychiatry of neoliberalism A short critical introduction to the work of grandfather of psychiatry Thomas Szasz.
The Sun and the "Mental Patient" Analysis behind today's headline in The Sun newspaper: "1,200 killed by mental patients".
