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The Culture

Perhaps the most embarrassing thing about throwing around accusations of cancel culture is the suggestion that having beef is, in itself, a bad thing. Or that when one person or a group of people come out fighting for something, one side shouldn’t win. There is no other cultural context in which this sort of wetwipe […]

Tariq Goddard leaves Repeater Books

Very sad news earlier this week that Tariq Goddard is stepping down as publisher at Repeater and Zer0 Books. There is a lot to be said about this news, but now is not the time. Alex’s statement above sums it up very nice, and you can read Tariq’s statement here. I’d also like to reiterate […]

Accelerate or Die! Now Streaming

Jake Chapman’s ACCELERATE OR DIE, the new documentary about accelerationism, directed by Mike Christie, is available to stream on NowTV for the next month. Watch it here. Here’s what I had to say about it last year.

Intentional Threads

What a weird general election… Many have noted the disappointment, the frustration, with welcoming in the end of 14 years of Tory governance and not being able to feel any excitement or hope for the future. I wanted to write something about it, but someone else got there first (if tangentially), and I’m glad for […]

Narciso desatado: Out now!

Narciso desatado: Una historia alternativa del selfie, the Spanish translation of my second book, Narcissus in Bloom, is out now! Published by Mutatis Mutandis and translated by Matheus Calderón Torres (who also translated Egreso), you can buy it here. The cover was designed by Julio Fuentes, using photographs I took whilst finishing the book in […]

In Search of Lost Futures: XG in Illness #01

My essay on Mark Fisher’s lost futures and the temporalities of mental illness has been published in the first edition of Illness, edited by Sam Kelly of the excellent Red Medicine podcast. This is an essay I’ve been sitting on for a long time. A longer version — too long, really — was read out […]

Re: Brat: More on Party Hauntology (Part One)

I’ve caught wind of two wonderful responses to my recent post on Charli xcx’s new album Brat and the subterranean melancholy that lurks beneath the defiant hedonism of a 2024 brat summer. Here is the first of two reflections on these interjections: Byrosaurus Rex drags underscores into the fray, as an example of pop brattishness […]

Mark Fisher dachte und fühlte über den Kapitalismus hinaus: XG in Jacobin

I was interviewed by Julia Werthmann for the German edition of Jacobin magazine a few months ago, just before the launch event for the German translation of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire lectures. You can read it here.

On Deleuze & Palestine: XG on Humanity 8.0

A wide-ranging two-part conversation with Ahmed Bouzid on the Humanity 8.0 podcast. I talk a bit about my own work, and then we discuss contemporary campus politics in orbit of Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, drawing on a number of their concepts (war machine, de/reterritorialization, etc.) as they relate to Israel and Palestine.

»Sehnsucht nach dem Kapitalismus«: Jakobiner-Klub Video Now Online

I’m quite late in posting this but I’ve only just realised that it is online. Above is the video of the conversation held at the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus in Berlin back in April. It was lovely to meet everyone there and I want to give a huge thank you to Alexander Brentler for being a […]