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New Year I

Scattered photos from the end of December last year, including New Year’s Eve.

The Drugs Did… Something

The other night, at a birthday party in town, I was offered a pill on the dance floor. I’m generally not someone who is into drugs. A few experiments in my early 20s often resulted in awful comedowns and only exacerbated an already nervous disposition. But that night, after a moment’s hesitation, I said yes. […]

Note Sul Surrealismo Capitalista: XG on Nero

A blogpost of mine from last year, “Notes on Capitalist Surrealism”, has been translated into Italian by Alessandro Sbordoni and published on Nero Editions. You can read it here.

New Tenderness 008

An hour of jazz, funk and a sprinkling of afrobeat this month. It started frosty but I think I was willing the return of the sun with this one. Enjoy. Tracklist Keith Jarrett — BirthJoe Zawinul — In a Silent WayBilly Gault — Mode for TraneAlix Pascal — DeterminationCharlie Haden, Jan Garbarek & Egberto Gismonti […]

Nothings and Somethings, This and That: The Fisher-Function Six Years On

Today is the sixth “uncanniversary” of Mark’s death, as Maya calls it. It is the first time since 2017 that the days have eerily aligned, with today also being Friday the 13th, as it was then. Next week, there’ll be one of the For k-punk events at the Fox and Firkin in Lewisham, acknowledging not […]

New Tenderness 007

The one thing I really missed over Christmas, which was mostly spent inside because it’s stupid cold and I’ve been sick constantly, is going on winter walks. I was thinking about this after a brief moment of Christmas normality. My Dad came to stay for one night to celebrate my birthday with me. We went […]

For K-Punk: The Weird and the Eerie

Over the last few years, the Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, has been followed by a For k-punk party, organised by Natasha Eves and myself. This year, Goldsmiths has commissioned For k-punk to organise the entire event. Over the past few months, Natasha has put together an amazing programme of talks, […]

Dream #1

I dreamt I saw Agra and the Taj Mahal, suspended in the air like a mirage, impossibly haloed by the Northern Lights, from an abandonedment apartment near the top of a tower block on the border of Greece and Bulgaria. The sun was low and the town’s golden hour made the room feel like a […]

Nowhere Fast: What Happened to Accelerationism? (Part One)

The history of a thing, in general, is the succession of forces which take possession of it and the co-existence of the forces which struggle for possession. — Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy It is a difficult task, for the philosopher, to pull names away from a usage that prostitutes them. — Alain Badiou, Ethics […]

Mind Spray

In the darkest of moments, reading invigorates and writing stills. Sinking into pain, like a stagnant body of water, life quickly feels squalid, sickly and directionless. But if this stinging ennui is at all existential, then it must be recognised as a resource and a reservoir. If the question asked is: “What’s the point of […]