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I Was a @_Geopoetics Meat Puppet

Here lies @_geopoetics RIP Dec 8, 2016, 1:31 PM – May 23, 2023, 12:15 AM Originally tweeted by Geopoetics (@_geopoetics) on June 1, 2023. The @_geopoetics bot was created in late 2016 as part of Kodwo Eshun’s Geopoetics seminar at Goldsmiths, University of London. At that time, as we engaged in a “slow reading” of Reza […]

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Photos taken throughout April.

Great Britain and the Children of Azkaban

In the midst of JK Rowling’s general fawning over the far-right “Gender Critical” movement, the appearance of the entire Harry Potter film series on UK Netflix was just one further annoyance in a widespread attempt to ignore the fact she still exists. That being said, I’m nothing if not prone to the occasional hate-watch of […]

Interview in Thrausma Journal

After recently publishing my introduction to the Greek translation of The Weird and The Eerie, I had a quick chat with Thrausma Journal over email. You can read the interview here on their website.

Itty Bitty No Titty Kitty: XG at the Lubber Fiend

I’ll be closing out the night for this top-surgery fundraiser on June 9th, raising money for Kitty McKay. This is following a really successful event at London’s Avalon Cafe a few weeks ago. Come down! Tickets are available here or OTD. You can also donate to the fundraiser directly here.

Truth has the Structure of Fiction: Introduction to the Greek Translation of Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie

The following essay was commissioned by Alexandros Papageorgiou, the Greek translator of Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie, and published by Antipodes in April this year. The essay has now been republished online in Thrausma Journal, a new venture publishing translations of texts associated with speculative realism, non-philosophy and gothic materialism, amongst other things. […]

Fiction has the Structure of Truth: Introduction to the Greek Translation of Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie

The following essay was commissioned by Alexandros Papageorgiou, the Greek translator of Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie, and published by Antipodes in April this year. The essay has now been republished online in Thrausma Journal, a new venture publishing translations of texts associated with speculative realism, non-philosophy and gothic materialism, amongst other things. […]

Por qué el pensador pop Mark Fisher fascina a los jóvenes de la izquierda: XG in El País

El sábado 14 de enero de 2017, el mismo mensaje hizo vibrar a los móviles silenciados de los estudiantes que abarrotaban la biblioteca de la Universidad londinense de Goldsmiths. Todos compartían el tuit que la cuenta @Repeaterbooks acababa de publicar: “En memoria de Mark Fisher (1968-2017). Una inspiración y un amigo. Nuestros pensamientos están con su familia”. […]

Shmialectics

A discussion watched from afar on Twitter that I can’t shake thinking about. Dr Greg charges Deleuze with a barbed, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, contraneity: Incredibly brave of Deleuze to reject the totalising system of dialectics in favour of a new, liberatory logic of… uhh, shmialectics Originally tweeted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 (@thewastedworld) on April […]

Thief of Fire: RIP Mark Stewart

I am so saddened to hear that we’ve lost Mark Stewart. I only wrote about him on the blog once, and briefly too, reminiscing about the first time I heard the Pop Group’s Y. The album had just been reissued by Mute, breathing a whole new life into the original recordings, with a bonus slab […]