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Rafael Holmberg is a PhD student focused on Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Political Theory, and has published in philosophical, cultural, and theoretical journals. He has also published (and is due to publish) short political pieces in smaller cultural journals and newspapers, and has been writing a blog/newsletter (Antagonisms of Everyday Life), on contemporary political-technological events and UK-US and Middle Eastern politics.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024Trump's Contradictory Libertarianism Succeeds by Continually Failing The Trump of 2016 and of 2024 are staggeringly different. Whilst in 2016, Trump maintained a veil of anti-bureaucratic libertarianism, he has in 2024 come to slowly avow an proto-fascistic authoritarianism. Despite this, the same 2016 support remains strong. In order to understand why the fact of Trump's radical political-ideological shift has had little effect on voters, it is important to turn to psychoanalysis.
Monday, May 6, 2024Humanism isn't Enough: There are no more Crises 'Far from Home' Humanistic narratives towards humanitarian crises often inversely justify a conditional concern. They are grounded in historicist reductions which frame the crisis as taking place 'over there'. The crises in Ukraine and Gaza are, however, not repetitions of historical events, but radically new disruptions with global implications. In order to seriously manage them, our conditionality 'with a Humanistic face' bust be abandoned.
