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November

Various photos from the end of November, 2022.

Penance Stare + Divide & Dissolve

Photos from the Divide & Dissolve gig at Newcastle’s Star and Shadow Cinema on November 15th 2022, with amazing support from Penance Stare.

New Tenderness 005

An hour of molasses melodies for winter drag and permanent dusk, put together in my head on a series of lonely night walks around Newcastle. RIP Mimi Parker. Tracklist Jan Garbarek — White Noise of ForgetfulnessAzimuth — The TunnelTalk Talk — The RainbowLow & Dirty Three — Down By The RiverRichard Dawson — The Hermit […]

『無条件加速主義入門』 Japanese Translation of the U/Acc Primer

New magazine Nukarumi-ha has recently launched with a double-issue exploring two trends in “current thought”. Issue one looks at “self-enlightenment” (自己啓発) and issue two looks at “accelerationism” (加速主義). In issue two, you can find a translation of my old blogpost “A U/Acc Primer” by Sakurai Tenjoka with assistance from Makimoto Otori and Yukimura Tsubame. I’m […]

Corin

Photos taken on the night my friend Corin celebrated her birthday.

Night Walks

Photos from a series of night walks around Newcastle in October and November.

Bonfire Night

Photos taken on Bonfire Night. Also happy birthday, Ged.

Blanchland Moor

The other week, myself, Emily and Moritz — we three new PhD students in the philosophy department at Newcastle — were invited for dinner with Lorenzo Chiesa and his partner, Danka. These photos are from the walk across Blanchland moor they took us on beforehand.

Marsden Rock

Stigmatext / Statictext

August 2022 Hélène Cixous writes of “stigmatexts”: “texts collected and stitched together sewn and resewn” in order to “share the trace of a wound.” They are texts made to mark and suture, and in this way, stigmatexts are common. All of literature, all of language, is “scarry” in this way, she adds. Literature “celebrates the […]