Specials
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Did Radiohead really "whitewash" Israel's genocide in Gaza?
“Let Down”: On Radiohead, BDS, and art in a time of genocide
A new article from Alasdair about last year’s controversy between Radiohead and the Palestinian Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement, who claimed the band were “whitewashing” Israel’s genocide in Gaza.…
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Alasdair Cannon's reply to a review of "Holding Patterns" (2022)
Paleconservative Reaction
Early last year, a self-proclaimed “paleoconservative” and “reactionary” magazine, O&R, reviewed Alasdair’s first book, Holding Patterns (2022). Today, Alasdair published a reply to that review, which outlines some of the…
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Kanye West wants to ‘get free or die trying’. So why has he chosen fascism?
Kanye's Black Nazism
I wrote this piece for Arena Quarterly (No. 22, June 2025). You can read the full piece here. Back in 2009, Spike Jonze wrote and directed a short film, We…
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Alasdair Cannon on the definition of an unclear term
What is Fascism?
What is fascism? For over a century, scholars have debated the meaning of the term; nonetheless, there is no widely accepted definition of fascism today.1 People have misused the term…
Guest Posts
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Book Review
Infinite Discontent – Reviewed by Tom Fielder
Tom Fielder—Birkbeck academic, psychosocial theorist, and one-time podcast guest—has published a long and thoughtful review of Alasdair’s book, Infinite Discontent: Writings on the Allure of Fascism, in Psychoanalysis, Culture &…
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A comment by Amanda Mont’Alvão Veloso
On "Infinite Discontent"
Psychoanalyst, author and former podcast guest, Amanda Mont’Alvão Veloso, recently wrote a comment for Alasdair’s new book, Infinite Discontent: Writings on the Allure of Fascism. Read on below for her…
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A guest essay by Nivedita Nair.
Young-Girls in Barbie-Land
In an essay titled ‘Freudian Theory’, T.W. Adorno takes a moment to describe how ‘catchy’ propaganda phrases survived in National Socialist Germany through ironic jokes made about the phrases themselves.…
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A guest post by Amanda Mont'Alvão Veloso Rabelo.
Civilised Problems
Prologue As we see: Claus unties the blindfold and whips it off his father. Rudolf blinks in the bright summer morning sun and sees Hedwig, and the other children, also…
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A guest piece by Jacob Smith.
Memes! Trump! Vibes!
The Boogaloo Bois are an armed, pro-Trump militia that appeared at the riot at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6th 2021. The following is a meme…
