Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 33
February 1, 2022
Blogger’s Digest #16 (01/02/2022)
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January 31, 2022
It’s Mattel’s Hyperreality, We Just Live in It
A lot of people have been talking about this article in Variety about Mattel Studios’ somewhat desperate attempts to bring their toy portfolio to the big screen: Warner Bros. is in prep for “Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and directed by Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay with partner Noah Baumbach. They’re also […]
A World Without Any Future?: XG at Kunstraum Lakeside
Following on from their zine launch at Trafó, Budapest, back in December, Mark Fridvalszki and Zsolt Miklósvölgyi have taken their acid test to Kunstraum Lakeside in Austria, with me in tow, trapped in my cathode-ray prison. A few photos from the installation above, all taken by Johannes Puch, and a statement on the show below. […]
January 28, 2022
For K-Punk 2022 // By The North Sea
Thanks to everyone who tuned into Robin Mackay’s By The North Sea, broadcast as part of For k-punk 2022. You will be able to listen back to the full broadcast for the rest of the weekend, after which it may — like the Trinitarian Church of Dagon — sink back into the sea, hopefully to return […]
January 24, 2022
NFTs and Open Access: Power in the Age of Digital Individualism
fundamentally if you are into NFTs, we are not in community together. my community celebrates how digital abundance has connected and equalized us. NFTs enforce artificial scarcity at the cost of collapsing power grids. it’s distilled capitalism and it’s fucking gross Originally tweeted by milf twink (@SamAllenX) on January 22, 2022. In recent weeks, I’ve […]
January 23, 2022
Top Withens
A Sunday walk up the Withens… This remote spot is closely associated with the Brontë’s, as Top Withens is often cited as the inspiration for the setting of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Although there are other buildings in the area that fit the description of Heathcliff’s home more closely, Top Withens and the […]
January 22, 2022
Oedipal Israel: Notes on Oedipus Beyond Psychoanalysis
Oedipus is a tragic figure and a victim of a strange fate. He is left to die on a mountainside by his father as a child — a father who enacts such a desperate act of cruelty in order to save his own skin, his family, his rule. He is rescued by a shepherd, adopted […]
January 21, 2022
For K-Punk 2022: Robin Mackay’s ‘By The North Sea’
Towards the end of last year, Natasha and I were really excited to be finally planning an in-person For k-punk for the first time in two years. We were invited by Goldsmiths to be the main event, rather than just the unofficial after-party, and had big plans. Then Omicron happened. As part of the proceedings, […]
January 20, 2022
Disintensification-by-Canonisation: Thoughts on the Fisher-Function
The five-year anniversary passed by strangely, and I found myself exhausted and infuriated by that same old comment, made every single year like clockwork, that Mark’s final act was easily explained by his penchant for ghosts and his depression. It makes me want to log off every January. Instead, I ended up embroiled in another […]
January 19, 2022
XG Reading Group 4.0: Postcapitalist Desire
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