My thesis explores the relationship between radical politics and the technical configuration of social life. I argue that technological developments contribute to a form of social acceleration that destabilises institutional and ideological arrangements and “repoliticises” our collective sense of time and place (producing new political subjectivities). The resultant political turbulence provides opportunities for the emergence of both reactionary and emancipatory political alternatives. Social media is my core example, demonstrating that politically both “everything and nothing” changed through its disruption of traditional media consumption.
My research interests include - radical democratic theory (critical theory, post-Marxism, anarchism and expansive accounts of democracy); the politics of technology (social media, internet cultures); interdisciplinary approaches to the politics of memory and space; the history of political thought, specifically receptions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; and unconventional political thought from outside the philosophical canon.
Before the DPhil, I received an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and a first-class BA in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Sheffield.
