Well, I think I’ve got to an age where I tend not to be overtly partisan. This way I can look at the picture from further out. Emotions/psychological make up seem to dictate my interests/study enough. Why pile the flag-waving n’ black-or-white thinking and some?

As for not operating under another name, it’s out of principle(not carlessness or naviety). If my results suffer for not responding pavlovian dog style to the leftist cabal, so be it.

*How has the accelerated nature of techno-capital, with it condensing information and cultural artifacts into virtual space, impacted cultural memory?

*The image played a part in the cultural theories of Debord and Baudrillard in the 20th century. To what extent does techno-capital/hyper modernity force academia to update these theories? How does a visual hegemony – through more sub-mediums than ever – influence techno-capital and vice versa?

*To what degree has the will-to-commodification bled into people’s perceptions and values? If subjects are becoming increasingly hyper-consumer/materialist, how does this impact us as citizens, aesthetes, and members of social spaces.

*The shopping mall and the sports arena are two of the major social/communal spaces left, yet, they, like popular modern music, complement the logic of neoliberalism/techno-capital, how can ‘culture’ recover from this?

*How is techno-capital affecting our cognitive/intellectual faculties? Are they being re-shaped, subdued, even denigrated?

*With the changing role of subjects as producers and workers, how does the ubiquity of techno-capital impact on our attitudes, valorisation and responses to work?

In terms of where I stand politically (economically), wihich is crux I guess. It’s more complicated – and probably pending, really. Although your work got me into these topics, I wouldn’t say I’m a cheerleader of what Fisher called your ‘cybernetic hand’ in his Capitalist Realism book. I looked at the spontaneous order lot – not entirely convinced the free-market actually circumvents meddling humans. I’d be interested to know how different theory has been ‘upgraded’ since Adam Smith’s original thoughts.

On the other hand, I feel like a bit of a spy/assassin entering Goldsmiths. I was of the left for most of my 20s, but I’m closer to Junger’s ‘Anarch’ – and increasingly so these days. Surrounded by all the neo-marxists/zizekians etc. will be interesting. I was particularly irked by the the discourses in the accelerationist event at Goldsmiths in 2010, which, ironically, got me interested in ‘Fanged Noumena’. Everyone was just hysterical, emotive. Especially Nina Powers.