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A Dream

I dreamt I had flown back from holiday to attend a job interview. The journey was arduous and dull. I returned home dishevelled, gathered up what I thought I might need, and walked to Newcastle’s Civic Centre.  The civic centre is an interesting building caught somewhere between a genuinely interesting piece of modernist architecture and […]

Microplastics + xin + ZINZILE: 21st June at the Lubber Fiend

A very exciting night coming up at Newcastle’s Lubber Fiend on 21st June. My friends Kitty McKay and Michael Waugh have been working very hard to pull this off and bring some of the most exciting music-makers in the UK up to the North East. This is really not to be missed. Full information (with […]

The Return of Party Hauntology: Notes on Brat

Charli XCX’s Brat perfectly encapsulates the wet summer of 2024, for better and for worse. I find myself finally able to look past the lingering cynicism felt toward the private-school pop-princess and am met by a sense of contemporaneity that is immediately clarifying. For the avoidance of any doubt, it’s an album I really like. […]

No Summer: Notes on Groundhog Day

I’ve been rewatching Game of Thrones recently. I’m not sure why. I’m reminding myself of the story before checking out the prequel, due to have a second season soon. It’s something to do on an evening, even though it appears to me that there has been much less fanfare about House of the Dragon. Yet […]

Whig Snatched: Notes on the General Election

I keep thinking about the Newport Uprising. I didn’t know anything about the Chartist movement and the fight for universal male suffrage until I moved to Newport, South Wales, as a baby-faced eighteen-year-old back in 2010. Back then, the town centre didn’t have much going for it — and neither did we — but I […]

Accelerate or Die: Barbican Screening

Accelerate or Die, a documentary about accelerationism, directed by Mike Christie and presented by Jake Chapman, is having a public screening at the Barbican next month. Tickets are available here. It’s a film I was interviewed for back in 2022, alongside a few of friends of the blog, including Maya B Kronic, Amy Ireland, Pete […]

Mark Fisher después de Mark Fisher

Thanks to everyone who came to the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque in Madrid last Tuesday night for Mark Fisher después de Mark Fisher. You can watch the conversation between myself, Marta Echaves, Luciana Cadahia and Germán Cano below. There was an article featuring Germán and I in ABC Cultural last week, although it is […]

Tynemouth

A trip to Tynemouth in early May, when Natasha came to stay for her birthday.

En busca de futuros perdidos

The keynote I gave a few months ago at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México for the Psicocapitalismo y revuelta onírico-política conference has been translated by Jacqueline Calderón and Edgar Morales and published over Reflexiones Marginales. It’s a heavily revised version of a talk I gave at the Moth Club in Hackney in late 2022 on […]

Deers Die With Their Eyes Open

I am trying to keep up my photography habit at the moment, but it is proving difficult, as is the habit of taking the photos I do take off my camera and uploading them to the blog… Life continues to be heavily PhD-oriented, and so the blog continues to be on the back burner. It […]