Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 10

Notes on a Post(-)Critique

A response from Tutt following the recent Twitter drama, with a few references to my last post. Here’s a few brief points reflecting on what Tutt says there. I identify as non-binary. Non-binary people are trans. I’m out at work and school and in all parts of my life. I’ve been living my life as […]

The Post-Left’s Marketplace of Ideas

It’s a Twitter drama that feels very familiar at this point. History has once again repeated itself. A new publication has been advertised that features many of the usual suspects that make up a “post-left” (or — let’s face it — current “neoreactionary”) milieu, along with a few “critics”, and it has had philosophy Twitter […]

Liz

My aunt Liz passed away yesterday. I’d known she was unwell for some time, but it still came as a shock, as everyone thought she was on the road to recovery. Having had some seemingly successful rounds of chemotherapy over the last year, she was apparently out walking the dog just two weeks ago. Then […]

Jake Chapman’s Accelerate and Die: The New /Acc Primer

I went down to London for a brief 24-hour visit yesterday to attend a private screening of Jake Chapman’s new film, Accelerate or Die! (You Get the Dystopia You Deserve), at the Prince Charles cinema off Leicester Square. I was interviewed for the film back in spring 2022 and have been eagerly anticipating the final […]

Lo-Fi and Queer Time: Notes on Reclaimed Futures and Nostalgia

The shuttering of Twitter’s API and the mind-numbing prevalence of bullshit ads on that platform has basically killed any interest I have in posting on there for the moment. I’ve cashed in a Bluesky invite, joined Threads, all that ship-jumping, but much to my own surprise, I am spending way more time over on Instagram […]

New Tenderness 013

Slack's · New Tenderness w. Xenogothic – July 2023 You can now listen back to the thirteenth episode of New Tenderness on Slack’s radio. It’s a recreation of my set from our Itty Bitty No Titty Kitty fundraiser at the Lubber Fiend on 9 June 2023. Expect big silly fun for the late-night hard crew, […]

Better Queer?

Two years ago, I wrote a long blogpost reflecting on — and attempting to come to some preliminary terms with — my gender identity. “Bad Queer” was shared widely at the time, much to my surprise, and continues to resonate with others at intervals. Most recently, Twitter user @jamesd_todd shared the post, adding a few […]

Emosystems

I wonder if writing has begun to make me sad. It’s not writer’s block, but a kind of writer’s lament. Not “the words won’t come”, but “the words are not enough”. A Beckettian paradox for the meek scribbler: “I can’t go on, I’ll go on”. It is a feeling too pathetic to warrant dissection. Woe, […]

The Person Who Listens to Everything: Notes on Sonic Tyranny and the Vibification of the Future

In recent years, I’ve noticed a memetic shift in how we understand and appreciate the listening habits of others. For a while — and I would somewhat sheepishly include myself in this — there was a tendency amongst the culturally promiscuous to respond to the question “So what sort of music are you into?” with […]

Asit Komünizm: XG in Manifold

My 2018 essay attempting to resituate Mark Fisher’s rapidly popularised “acid communism” has been translated into Turkish for Manifold and given additional notes by Hasan Cem Çal. You can read the translation here and the original essay here.