Paroxysms
Edmund King, Thomas ProsserSurveying the contours of the New Sentimental Order
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Struggling with Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Philip Halling, 30 December 2023. Wikimedia Commons.
The utopian dream of any marginal sect is to bureaucratise itself across the whole of society. Despite their sense of individual powerlessness, sect adherents l...
The Ends of English
Title page of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA. Wikimedia Commons, 2013.
What is the cultural past and why does it matter to us? For the self-taught American literary theorist Kenneth Burke,...
Towards a Critical Theory of the Open Letter
Under the regime of digital transparency, what was formerly hidden or private is now public and open to view. All previously existing screens and barriers seem to be coming down. However, the new dispensation does not involve the suspension...
Bluesky, Echo Chambers, and the Threat of Social Contamination Online
This is an extract from chapter 6 of our new book, Beyond Woke and Anti-Woke: Explaining the Rise of Social Justice Ideology, which comes out with Bristol University Press on 17 February 2026. If you don’t already subscribe to Thomas Prosse...
Acting Under New Descriptions
Hans von Marées, Double Portrait: Marées and Lenbach (1863). Bavarian State Painting Collections. Image: Wikimedia Commons
During the 1980s and 1990s, the philosopher Ian Hacking became fascinated with how “new ways to be a person” arise.1...
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Writer and academic based in the United Kingdom. Formerly posted under the handle @ghostofchristo1.
Professor at Cardiff University and author of The Path Not Taken, a (free) Substack which analyzes politics using theories of ideologies and institutions.
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