Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 28
May 17, 2022
Dreams of the Liminal
Last night I dreamt I was in rural Wales, in the very south-west of the country. I had a lot of bags with me, my mum and ex-girlfriend with me, and for someone reason a bass guitar that had once belonged to someone famous. The back room of the guitar shop where the bass was […]
May 16, 2022
Sex and Subjective Instability
If it was not already obvious, I have started re-reading Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus in the run-up to my PhD, which I’m starting in October. Given my topic is the figure of the orphan in psychoanalysis and philosophy, I am taking Anti-Oedipus as my starting point, and whilst the PhD will no doubt be a […]
May 15, 2022
Relationships and the Real: Thoughts on Desiring-Production as Social Production
… the real object that desire lacks is related to an extrinsic natural or social production, whereas desire intrinsically produces an imaginary object that functions as a double of reality, as though there were a “dreamed-of object behind every real object,” or a mental production behind all real productions. One of the first tasks that […]
May 13, 2022
May 10, 2022
No Familiar
3rd May 2022 When do you know you feel? When do you know to trust that feeling of being safe? I still feel so all over the place, but it’s stupid because everything is so good. I feel safe and held but I don’t know whether to trust that feeling fully or not. Ian asked […]
May 8, 2022
Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of my Life: Zer0 Classics Edition
The first in a new series of Zer0 Classics have been announced: a new edition of Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of my Life. I was invited to write a new introduction and Simon Reynolds has contributed an afterword. As a little precis to my introduction, I’ve done my best to chronicle the development of one of […]
May 1, 2022
Spring News
A big week this week. The first complete draft of my next book, Narcissus in Bloom, was sent off to Repeater Books, so we can start the editing process in a couple of months. I also had confirmation that my PhD in Philosophy at Newcastle University will be funded by the Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral […]
April 29, 2022
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April 19, 2022
Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition
Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, a collection of essays edited by Ilan Manouach & Anna Engelhardt, is finally up for pre-order at bruil.info. It features an essay from me on “Artificial Dementia” and so, so much more. From essays to visual contributions, this feels like one beastly publication. (Full list of contributors TBC.) For those […]
