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March 7, 2022
The K-Files: Episode #3 —“Who’s Pulling Your Strings?”
ICYMI, episode #3 of The K-Files is now available over on the Zer0 Books YouTube channel. We talked about the Ccru text, “Who’s Pulling Your Strings?”, with Amy Ireland. For more info, check out the Buddies Without Organs website.
March 2, 2022
Disestablished Orders: Notes on Abstraction and Empathy in Culture and Politics
We recorded another episode of The K-Files last night (we’ve been on a roll), and though it was not the overall focus of our discussion, I ended up revisiting the excellent debate had on alt.movies.kubrick back in 2004, in which Mark Fisher makes the case for Stanley Kubrick being a “cold rationalist” Spinozist filmmaker (with […]
February 28, 2022
Ukraine
It’s hard to know what to say at the moment. We’re almost a week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but it seems that things are still unfolding at a disorientating and uneven rate. The last few days, my mind has been — if I’m completely honest — on other things (specifically, moving house). But as […]
February 27, 2022
February 23, 2022
Caja Negra’s Mark Fisher Vigil
A wonderful event organised by the folks at Caja Negra last weekend, as something of a response to the events organised in the UK over the last few years, chronicled in my book Egress. It’s beautiful to see these images, as these are the sorts of events we always wanted to inspire. It is hard […]
February 22, 2022
Mundane Schizophrenias: Notes on Wounds and Degraded Ideals
I’ve been feeling really frustrated recently. Angry even. I find myself lying awake at night just raging against things in my head — mundane injustices and difficulties and obstacles that I wish would fuck off. The other night I found myself ranting to my analyst about it — specifically the sense of injustice I feel […]
February 21, 2022
The K-Files: Episodes So Far
I’ve been a little distracted of late and just realised that I hadn’t yet boosted either episode of The K-Files here yet. ICYMI, The K-Files is a new venture from we three Buddies Without Organs, exploring the lesser known works of Mark Fisher. We kicked things off with a favourite post of mine, “Megalithic Astropunk”, […]
February 20, 2022
“Maintaining now the spectres of Mark.”
A really lovely and humbling essay from Tamara Tenenbaum on elDiario.com, on the Spanish translation of Egress: Egreso tiene la emotividad de los mejores textos de Levinas y Derrida sobre la muerte, y tiene algo más quizás: una valentía inusual para sumergirse en la pregunta por el sentido del suicidio Y, más aún, del suicidio […]
February 18, 2022
“Joe Bousquet and the Morality of Language” by Ferdinand Alquié [Draft Translation]
Another essay referenced by Gilles Deleuze in Logic of Sense, on the work of Joe Bousquet. Following the previous essay by René Nelli, this shorter tract is by one of Deleuze’s former teachers, Ferdinand Alquié. Alquié is interesting as a staunch Cartesian who spent decades in a protracted debate with his Spinozist contemporary Martial Gueroult. […]
Rain
A beautifully messy night at Rain in Huddersfield.
