It should surprise no-one that, in the middle of the 6-month liquidation of the Gaza concentration camp by the Israel Defense Forces, the UK film industry released not one but two films about the ‘Holocaust’.1 One Life, a UK film about a British man who helped Jews from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, was released in the UK … Continue reading Zones of Interest: The Holocaust Industry in Film
Category: Biopolitics
‘For as long as it takes’: NATO’s War on Russia
‘The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.’ — Emmanuel Goldstein, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, 1984 When the governing executives of the United Kingdom, the European … Continue reading ‘For as long as it takes’: NATO’s War on Russia
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Regulatory Apparatuses of Biopower
‘The technologies at the heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are connected in many ways — in the way they extend digital capabilities; in the way they scale, emerge and embed themselves in our lives; in their combinatorial power; and in their potential to concentrate privilege and challenge existing governance systems.’ — Klaus Schwab, Shaping … Continue reading Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Regulatory Apparatuses of Biopower
Woke, Racism and the Great Reset
Among the many things the last three-and-a-half-years of cowardice and complicity have demonstrated is that the West, as an idea, is now dead. If it continues to haunt the world, it is only as an interdependent financial sector rapidly reaching the day of its reckoning, military alliances against whatever bogeyman the US identifies for ‘liberation’ … Continue reading Woke, Racism and the Great Reset
The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism
The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism — October 2023 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £32.00 Paperback: £20.00 E-book: £10.00 (please specify that you are paying for a copy of this book, and check your junkmail for the return email with the e-book) Look Inside Description When the restrictions under which we lived for two years … Continue reading The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism
What is a Woman? Response to Jacqueline Rose
The week after I published my article, ‘Trans Rights and the Order of Speech’ in Off-Guardian, The New Statesman published two articles by, respectively, the biologist, Richard Dawkins, ‘Why biological sex matters’ and the feminist, Jacqueline Rose, ‘The gender binary is false’. I don’t know Rose personally, but her 1986 book, Sexuality in the Field … Continue reading What is a Woman? Response to Jacqueline Rose
Trans Rights and the Order of Speech: Part Two
Part One of this article can be read here. 3. The Misogyny of ‘Trans’ Let’s begin with a question few have the courage to pose and fewer still dare to answer honestly. Why is it always male transvestites who demand access to women’s toilets, men who want to compete in women’s sports, and male rapists … Continue reading Trans Rights and the Order of Speech: Part Two
Trans Rights and the Order of Speech: Part One
‘There is a new word in Newspeak’, said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.’ — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four, … Continue reading Trans Rights and the Order of Speech: Part One
Defending Freedom for the Future
Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of a text published in 1938 by … Continue reading Defending Freedom for the Future
Coronation Day: The Functions of the Monarchy
The coronation of the sovereign is a dangerous time for the UK state because it forces our constitutional monarchy to reconcile the contradictory governing systems of a parliamentary democracy elected by the people of Britain and a Head of State inherited by birth. To oversee this unification, Charles Mountbatten-Windsor — who became the UK sovereign … Continue reading Coronation Day: The Functions of the Monarchy