Rafael Holmberg is a Swedish-Francophone PhD Student at University College London in Psychoanalytic Theory and Philosophy and a political writer. His work broadly draws on post-war Continental philosophy, German Idealism, Marxism, and psychoanalytic theory (predominantly Freud, Lacan, and Laplanche), with a special focus on the history of philosophy, political theory, contemporary UK, US, and European politics, as well as film, literature, and history. ​
Holmberg's writings have appeared in a variety of journals, magazines, newspapers, and book chapters, including the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Z Magazine, Politics.co.uk, The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Bright Lights Film Journal, Byline Times, and Culture, Theory & Critique. He also has forthcoming essays for The Philosopher, Aeon, and Radical Philosophy.
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Besides this, Holmberg also runs a regular newsletter - Antagonisms of the Everyday - which explores contradictions and anomalies in culture and politics through a theoretical lens, drawing amongst other things on sociology, film, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.