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 NHS pay freeze and the end of Agenda for Change This article looks at these changes and the ways in which successive years of 0% or 1% pay rises in the NHS have undermined the national Agenda…
Police arrest Alexandria workers as strikes continue nationwide Striking postal workers arrested as more than 50,000 employees of the state-owned postal services…
Speed & politics: an amphetamine political economy Building on the society of stimulation, this long-read post is a theoretical examination of pharmacology as material practice and as metaphor…
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…
Lessons from a social service worker’s strike This piece was written in 2004-2005 in the wake of a strike at a behavioral health facility. Through the immediate eyes of those experiences it…
Compass Medirest workers strike at Ealing hospital Outsourced porters, cleaners and canteen staff at Ealing hospital are on 48 hour strike for higher wages.
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…
An open letter to Graham Stanier (Director of Aftercare for the Jeremy Kyle Show) An open letter to Graham Stanier - the Director of Aftercare on the Jeremy Kyle Show, asking how he…
