The following is definitely a ‘work in progress’ and a working hypothesis, and its main aim is to try and formulate a relationship between right-wing populism (RWP) and the Real. My basic contention is that RWP is founded on an ‘ideology of the Real’, which although posing a number of …
In the wake of the recent Paris attacks there has been a lot of soul searching regarding the state of readiness of Western capitals to both prevent and respond to such events. And part of this soul searching has focused on the question of radicalisation and de-radicalisation. In other words, …
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks in Paris last week, a fierce debate appears to be developing about the precise nature of freedom in a liberal democracy such as France, and, perhaps more importantly, whether there is contradiction at the heart of liberal democratic ideology …
I’ve just been reading a couple of interesting books, both of which are concerned, in their own ways, with ideology. One is Owen Jones’ excellent study on The Establishment,1 whilst the other is Christian Fuchs’ critique of social media.2 For some strange reason, whilst I was reading Jones’ book I …
