Howard Feather has taught social theory at the University of East London, City University, London and London Metropolitan University and is the author of Intersubjectivity and Contemporary Social Theory: the Everyday as Critique. He was a longstanding member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Radical Philosophy. He currently teaches sociology at the Open University.
What is happening when we mistake one thing for another? Disorientations and double takes are a key part of the lived experience of modern capitalism. But the corollary of this is an existential anxiety which motivates a perpetual search for reassurances of our individual and collective identities.H...