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30/05/2026

Coming up at Verdurin: Inside the Panopticon
With Jacob Siegel, author of “The Information State”

We have known about the staggering scale of state mass surveillance since Edward Snowden’s leaks in 2013. Covid-era mass contact tracing, along with the monitoring and suppression of civilian communications as “disinformation”, documented in the 2022 Twitter files, should have made the pernicious nature of the “information state” widely understood.

Yet we remain oblivious to the reality of living in this information state. Thriving on disengagement, the technological infrastructure built to make society safer has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control.

The information state uses censorship and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions and engineer reality. An alliance between government and tech business formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against its biopolitical subjects.

How can we make politics in this panopticon? Join author of “The Information State” and former US Army officer Siegel in a conversation about the rise of the data-fuelled control state, the encroachment of military technologies in civic life, and the role of political thought under surveillance.

📅 23 June, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/inside-the-panopticon/

29/05/2026

Last night at Verdurin with Bungacast's Alex Hochuli, George H***e, and Philip Cunliffe, with responses from Lee Jones and Nina Power.

https://verdur.in/store/the-end-of-the-end-of-history-politics-in-the-twenty-first-century-by-alex-hochuli-george-hoare/

27/05/2026

Back tomorrow night at Verdurin, with BungaCast and guests

The “end of history” is over. Liberal democracy as the final form of human organisation? Pah! The arc of history tending towards justice? Pah!

The building blocks of the past – political parties, ideologies, and institutions – are decaying around us. But will the end of twentieth-century modernity be the start of something new?

Five years on from the publication of The End of the End of History, its authors Alex Hochuli, George H***e, and Philip Cunliffe reflect on a world in a state of accelerated decay, with responses from guests Lee Jones and Nina Power.

They say that “nothing ever happens”. Pah! Something ever happens!

📅 28 May, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/historys-back-baby/

26/05/2026

Coming up at Verdurin: Out of Print, or the problem of literacy

Where does literacy begin and end? We take the Iliad to be the foundation of literary culture, but such texts stem from an oral tradition, embodied and mutable. Writing a ‘definitive’ version brings permanence, but does the artefact thus become a monolith, effectively spelling the word’s end?

In reading, words stand apart from their everyday significance. Already in the fourth century, Augustine found Saint Ambrose reading silently startling. The evolution of writing techniques — from Gutenberg to HTML — only fuels their continued abstraction.

Technology gets the blame today for us no longer reading enough, not writing well, and, worst of all, failing to parse the written word. Yet already in the nineteenth century, Nietzsche bemoaned mass literacy. AI read-write tools make authenticity a premium, while the Chinese state is investing in the promotion of reading as a geopolitical tactic.

Are reading and writing, therefore, a battleground of both our tastes and resources? These questions are the haunting of language itself.

With contributions from Edmund King, Alison Brady, Kit Wilson, Daniel Hadas, and aesthetic interruptions, Out of Print will examine the ostensible crisis of reading in our age in literary, philosophical, historical, and sociological forms.

📅 20 June, 2-6pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/out-of-print/

25/05/2026

This Thursday at Verdurin: History’s back, baby!
With BungaCast and guests

The “end of history” is over. Liberal democracy as the final form of human organisation? Pah! The arc of history tending towards justice? Pah!

The building blocks of the past – political parties, ideologies, and institutions – are decaying around us. But will the end of twentieth-century modernity be the start of something new?

Five years on from the publication of The End of the End of History, its authors Alex Hochuli, George H***e, and Philip Cunliffe reflect on a world in a state of accelerated decay, with responses from guests Lee Jones and Nina Power.

They say that “nothing ever happens”. Pah! Something ever happens!

📅 28 May, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/historys-back-baby/

21/05/2026

Last night at Verdurin with Angie Speaks and Nina Power.

📖 https://verdur.in/store/late-stage-babylon-navigating-the-post-secular-spiritual-crisis-by-angie-speaks/

19/05/2026

Very excited to announce that Verdurin will publish THE STUD by Liam Blackford later this year.

In a breakaway hyperliberal Republic of Western Australia confronting a catastrophic birthrate collapse, the state turns reproduction into policy. Martina, a high-powered Perth lawyer, joins a household with three other driven women to employ one man, Luke, to father their children. At first, it works. Then it doesn't.

The Stud is an ice-cold work of post-transgressive fiction that combines the clinical banalities of Bret Easton Ellis with the philosophical anti-platitudes of Michel Houellebecq, probing the societal death throes of our present-future age of anxiety and uncertainty.

Liam Blackford a writer and poet living in Perth.

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18/05/2026

This Wednesday at Verdurin: The battle for the soul in late-stage Babylon.

Join the author of “Late-Stage Babylon” Angie Speaks in a conversation with the philosopher Nina Power as they scrutinise the past decade’s “ontological shock”, the rise of the Jungian Antichrist, techno-eschatology, and ways to reintegrate society’s repressed shadow.

📅 20 May, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/the-counterfeit-spirit/

12/05/2026

Coming up at Verdurin: History’s back, baby!
With BungaCast and guests

The “end of history” is over. Liberal democracy as the final form of human organisation? Pah! The arc of history tending towards justice? Pah!

The building blocks of the past – political parties, ideologies, and institutions – are decaying around us. But will the end of twentieth-century modernity be the start of something new?

Five years on from the publication of The End of the End of History, its authors Alex Hochuli, George H***e, and Philip Cunliffe reflect on a world in a state of accelerated decay, with responses from guests Lee Jones and Nina Power.

They say that “nothing ever happens”. Pah! Something ever happens!

📅 28 May, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/historys-back-baby/

11/05/2026

Next week at Verdurin: The Counterfeit Spirit with Angie Speaks

We live in a culture gorged in spectacle but starved for meaning — a late-stage Babylon in which spirit and matter cannot find their place.

Join the author of “Late-Stage Babylon” Angie Speaks in a conversation with the philosopher Nina Power as they scrutinise the past decade’s “ontological shock”, the rise of the Jungian Antichrist, techno-eschatology, and ways to reintegrate society’s repressed shadow.

📅 20 May, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/the-counterfeit-spirit/

08/05/2026

The Counterfeit Spirit with Angie Speaks

We live in a culture gorged in spectacle but starved for meaning — a late-stage Babylon in which spirit and matter cannot find their place.

Join the author of “Late-Stage Babylon” Angie Speaks in a conversation with the philosopher Nina Power as they scrutinise the past decade’s “ontological shock”, the rise of the Jungian Antichrist, techno-eschatology, and ways to reintegrate society’s repressed shadow.

📅 20 May, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/the-counterfeit-spirit/

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