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February 17, 2022
“Joe Bousquet and his Double” by René Nelli [Draft Translation]
As previously mentioned, I’ve been trying to translate some Joe Bousquet. Having started on his book Traduit du silence, I quickly felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew, so I have instead gone for something more manageable. Below is an essay written by René Nelli for issue #303 of Cahiers du Sud, the […]
February 16, 2022
February 14, 2022
Jornada de Vigilia por Mark Fisher
A lovely event happening this weekend, with Caja Negra Editora taking up the idea of the Fisher-Function and throwing their own day-long event thinking with and through Mark Fisher, hosted by Club de Artes y Ocios in Buenos Aires. I’ll be joining Emiliano Exposto, Mnemo, Tamara Tenenbaum, Alfredo Aracil and Ezequiel Fanego tp talk about […]
February 11, 2022
The Royal George II
Almost six months later, the return…
February 10, 2022
There’s No End
There’s a new documentary about Phil Elverum up on his YouTube channel, directed by Mattias Evangelista and with cinematography by Riley Donavan. It’s a really beautiful piece of work, documenting life more than anything, albeit through that Twin Peaks haze that Elverum has become so well-known for translating through his music and Tarkovsky-esque photography. It’s […]
February 9, 2022
Blobtology: XG on Horror Vanguard
I had so much fun with Ash and Jon the other week on their excellent podcast, Horror Vanguard. We talked about Mr Blobby as libidinal ejecta of the class war and as postmodern children’s soft play area having its revenge on suburbia — something of a riff on a blogpost I wrote back in 2018 […]
February 8, 2022
All Centre @ Spanners
Top night at Spanners with Changsie, DJ Pitch, Jennifer Walton, Nammy Wams and Simkin.
February 4, 2022
Translating Silence: Notes on Bousquet and Learning French
Has the time finally arrived? For years, I’ve been struck by that itch, common to a lot of people who ready and study French philosophy, no doubt: a resigned understanding that a lot of the best scholarship and further reading just isn’t available in English and is unlikely to be any time soon. So, best […]
February 3, 2022
NFTs and Open Access: Promiscuous Communities
Last month, I wrote a post about “NFTs and Open Access: Power in the Age of Digital Individualism” that proved pretty popular. What surprised me, however, was the sheer range of people it appeared popular with. On the one hand, it received acknowledgements from people working in Web3 that I respect and admire, and who […]
February 2, 2022
Neoreaction and the Hyperreal
A short Twitter thread, expanded on the blog for posterity: Charlie Kirk warns “the transgender movement is an introductory phase to get you to strip yourself of your humanity to mesh with machines,” adding “if you stop being a man, then maybe you can stop being a human being” Originally tweeted by Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) […]
