Julian Ratcliffe

Julian Ratcliffe is a UCL philosophy graduate and aspiring filmmaker. He has an interest in the interaction between emancipatory politics and postmodernism, in social epistemology, and in how artistic representation can foster the creation of revolutionary interpretative communities.

How has the American style of truthfulness influenced the rise of Trump?

Trump’s bombastic theatricality should be interpreted as a nostalgic return to the monopoly on self-evidence that founded the United States.

By Julian Ratcliffe

/ 20 Jan 2017

Fighting the politics of confusion

Post-factualism and incoherent political narratives are the right's new anti-opposition strategy — here’s what we must do.

By Julian Ratcliffe

/ 7 Aug 2016