josie sparrow (@ofthesparrows)
Josie is a philosophy scholar and a contributing editor at New Socialist. You can read more of her work at peachtreepeartree.com.
False Promises
Keir Starmer's leadership bid gestures towards generosity whilst manipulating our emotions & appealing to our unconscious biases. We should refuse this dishonesty.
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josie sparrow
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Feb. 24, 2020
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Theory and Strategy
Light in the Darkness
Our hope, our love, and our togetherness are powerfully transformative. We must never forget this.
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josie sparrow
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Dec. 11, 2019
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Theory and Strategy
To Each According to their Needs! On Labour's Universal Basic Services report.
John McDonnell's UBS report offers a potential framework for a revolution in the ways we conceive of and meet our needs.
A Kinder, Gentler Politics? Building better discussion on the left—a New Socialist discussion at TWT
Join us at TWT 2019 to explore how we can better handle contradictions as socialists.
There's More to Life than This! An argument for joy, against economism.
Technocratic policy fixes and sci-fi fantasies won’t save us—ecological collapse calls us to rethink our attitudes to extraction, exploitation, and interconnection.
Against the New Vitalism.
Recent attempts to rehabilitate vitalism, despite claims to be radically ecological, are an example of how fascism re-appropriates the past in an attempt to colonise the future.
We Are Not Your Flock: Reading Angela Smith with Rancière.
What does the Independent Group’s claimed “duty to lead” tell us about their attitude towards the world-making capacities of the working class?
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josie sparrow
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Feb. 25, 2019
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Theory and Strategy
Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower
Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘The Tower’ is neither radical or neutral, but a symptom of a middle-class journalism that upholds and supports the given political order through its dishonest claims of objectivity
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josie sparrow
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Oct. 25, 2018
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Theory and Strategy
False Promises
Keir Starmer's leadership bid gestures towards generosity whilst manipulating our emotions & appealing to our unconscious biases. We should refuse this dishonesty.
by
josie sparrow
/
Feb. 24, 2020
/
Theory and Strategy
Light in the Darkness
Our hope, our love, and our togetherness are powerfully transformative. We must never forget this.
by
josie sparrow
/
Dec. 11, 2019
/
Theory and Strategy
To Each According to their Needs! On Labour's Universal Basic Services report.
John McDonnell's UBS report offers a potential framework for a revolution in the ways we conceive of and meet our needs.
A Kinder, Gentler Politics? Building better discussion on the left—a New Socialist discussion at TWT
Join us at TWT 2019 to explore how we can better handle contradictions as socialists.
There's More to Life than This! An argument for joy, against economism.
Technocratic policy fixes and sci-fi fantasies won’t save us—ecological collapse calls us to rethink our attitudes to extraction, exploitation, and interconnection.
Against the New Vitalism.
Recent attempts to rehabilitate vitalism, despite claims to be radically ecological, are an example of how fascism re-appropriates the past in an attempt to colonise the future.
We Are Not Your Flock: Reading Angela Smith with Rancière.
What does the Independent Group’s claimed “duty to lead” tell us about their attitude towards the world-making capacities of the working class?
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josie sparrow
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Feb. 25, 2019
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Theory and Strategy
Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower
