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class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will Davies, &amp;apos;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1207800799?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4c96c1b2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-color:#752121;border-width:1px;border-top-left-radius:15px;border-top-right-radius:15px;border-bottom-left-radius:15px;border-bottom-right-radius:15px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Amidst ample discussion of how online culture seems to amplify and&nbsp;facilitate&nbsp;reactionary political ideologies, there has been less attention paid to the common thread of &#8216;reaction&#8217; as a simultaneously behavioural,&nbsp;moral&nbsp;and ideological vector. The phenomenon of &#8216;reaction videos&#8217; that&nbsp;emerged&nbsp;out of gaming culture in the 2000s now provides a whole new template of public interaction, cultural&nbsp;production&nbsp;and valuation. But what does &#8216;reaction&#8217; in this sense have to do with forces of &#8216;reaction&#8217; in the political sense? Drawing on a forthcoming book, this talk will examine the multiple overlapping meanings of &#8216;reaction&#8217;, and&nbsp;examine via the work of Nietzsche and others how the behavioural idea of reaction intersects with the moral and ideological one &#8211; a confluence that sits at the heart of contemporary digital reaction culture.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><strong>Will Davies <\/strong>is a sociologist and political economist, working on diverse topics, including neoliberalism, happiness science, environmental&nbsp;politics&nbsp;and anti-expert politics. What links this work is an interest in the interface of knowledge and power, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Luc&nbsp;Boltanski&nbsp;and Max Weber. I am Co-Director of the interdisciplinary Political Economy Research Centre and&nbsp;convene&nbsp;the BA in Politics Philosophy &amp; Economics. He is author of&nbsp;<em>Nervous States: How feeling took over the world<\/em>&nbsp;(2018),&nbsp;<em>The Happiness Industry: How the government and big business sold us wellbeing<\/em>&nbsp;(2015) and&nbsp;<em>The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority,&nbsp;Sovereignty&nbsp;and the Logic of Competition<\/em>&nbsp;(2016).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">&nbsp;<br><strong>Malcolm James<\/strong> is an Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, and&nbsp;a member of the&nbsp;Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies&nbsp;steering committee&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of&nbsp;<em>Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate&nbsp;Radio&nbsp;and Grime YouTube Music Videos<\/em>&nbsp;(Bloomsbury) and&nbsp;<em>Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation<\/em>&nbsp;(Palgrave); and co-editor of&nbsp;<em>Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London<\/em>&nbsp;(Repeater).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, 2026 By\u202fWill Davies\u202fwith a response from&nbsp;Malcolm James Amidst ample discussion of how online culture seems to amplify and&nbsp;facilitate&nbsp;reactionary political ideologies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}