Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. His most recent publications include the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato's Experimental Politics and the book Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism and Twenty-First-Century Socialism (Polity 2020). Right now he is a Visiting Professor in the Humanities at at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Rhode Island, until May.He writes regularly for the British press (including the Guardian, the New Statesman, open Democracy and Red Pepper).