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Anxiety

The Guardian That Never Sleeps

The Guardian That Never Sleeps

For almost ninety years mass anxieties about kidnapping and child abuse have driven the development of surveillance technologies focused on seeing and hearing children. How might these technologies impact the relationships between mothers and children?

The Class Character of the Coronavirus Panic

The Class Character of the Coronavirus Panic

In the panic attack, the traumatic event is created by the imagination and this construction (a micro-delusion), built in loneliness and anxiety, has the same power as the real trauma.

On Banality Journalism; What is a Liberal? Part Two: The Moderate Liberal

On Banality Journalism; What is a Liberal? Part Two: The Moderate Liberal

The most boring people in the world are no longer entertained.

A New Type of Educational Illness in Brooklyn Public Schools

A New Type of Educational Illness in Brooklyn Public Schools

In consistently "failing" schools, the competitive spirit is always present, but with an estranged character.

The Psychoeducational Middle School

The Psychoeducational Middle School

The introduction of a therapeutic element in the absence of any explicit acknowledgment of the social and material context in which tensions arise intensifies repression rather than relieving it.

We Are All Very Bad Materialists

We Are All Very Bad Materialists

The Institute for Precarious Consciousness has engineered theoretical "machines" for their own confusion.