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Flashes of Light, Echoes of Drumbeats

In response to Clíodhna Timoney’s exhibition Flashes of Light … Rosa Abbott has written a text reflecting on various urban and rural geographies, electrification, and the liberatory potential of rave culture. It takes the form of a series of letters to the late writer Mark Fisher, whose text ‘Baroque Sunbursts’ was a reference point for […]

Mattie

There was a wonderful series of events organised in Newcastle recently: a Trans_Formation residency, during which I. JORDAN came to town to host and facilitate various things aimed at trans and non-binary artists in the north east. Having only a vaguely held dream of DJing around the city, I didn’t attend many of the events […]

New Tenderness 009

I was listening back to Kodwo Eshun’s Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture one night back in January, not long after getting back from Dublin, and it made me miss the atmosphere at Goldsmiths back in the 2017. Though it was marred by tragedy, following the death of Mark Fisher, the prevailing legacy of that time was […]

A Note on Speed

As I continue to tidy up my notes on accelerationism, finishing the follow-up to this post from January, a note on speed from Deleuze: [Speed] doesn’t mean to be the first to finish… Nor does it mean always changing… Speed is to be caught in a becoming that is not a development or an evolution. […]

Throw Eggs at Deep House Bros

Neoreactionary Postmodernism

Over the past month, I’ve been working on a k-punk-related commission [TBA] that has once again sent me back into the depths of the blogosphere, specifically the various conversations that were happening in orbit of the “Weird Realism” conference that Mark Fisher organised(?) at Goldsmiths in April 2007. In particular, there is a reflection on […]

Post-Graduate Desires: XG at NCAD, Dublin

I had a really great time in Dublin recently, after I was invited by Kasia Boyle to speak at the National College of Art and Design. The talk took place on 25th January, during the NCADSU’s Artist & Designer Development Week, and when it came to preparing for it, I was torn between trying to […]

Come Spring

I’m moving house at the end of this month. The one-year tenancy on my Newcastle flat is coming to an end, and it is clear that my flatmate and I are happy to go our separate ways. I’m anxious about it but also surprisingly relaxed. In many ways, I’m shocked it has only been a […]

Trans Joy is Resistance: Notes from the Newcastle Trans Rights Protest

The photos above were taken at a protest outside Newcastle’s civic centre, which was organised as a counter-demonstration against a #LetWomenSpeak event. Centred around the abundant egocentrism of mumsnet radicaliser Posie Parker, her long history of anti-trans activism, as well as her notoriety and reputation for harassment and general bigotry, has culminated in what has […]

New Year II

Photos from the first few weeks of 2023. I have been going on lots of night walks.