Carlos Frade is senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford (Manchester, UK), where he teaches social theory and political sociology along classical (Machiavellian, Marxian, Weberian, Freudian) and contemporary (Badiouian, Rancièrian, Balibarian, Zizekian) lines. His research focuses on the relationship between power and subjectivity in our world, and on the possibilities for emancipatory forms of subjectivation today. At its core is the attempt to understand why we submit and consent to what we know is unacceptable and disastrous.