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New Year’s Day

They say the way you spend your New Year’s Day defines or reflects the course of the coming year Originally tweeted by Jesse Darling (@burner___herzog) on January 1, 2022. Hungover walk to and around Southern Cemetery in Manchester, “the largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Europe”… Oops.

2021: The Year in Review

This year has been preserved in amber for me since about March. Spring feels like yesterday. I wonder if that’s because it was the one-year anniversary of the first lockdown. Time seems to have stalled since then. All that aside, 2021 has still been strangely busy. It began with the physical publication of Postcapitalist Desire […]

A Persistent Stitch: Winter Walks 2021

Various December walks, 2021 Tomorrow’s gossip and doldrums. So muchIs vision good for: like a persistent stitchIn the side, it nags, is tedious. “On the Decline of Oracles” by Sylvia Plath

2021 Playback: Selected Earworms

MF DOOM — Mm.. Food As we planned the 2021 edition of For k-punk back in January, it was announced that MF DOOM had passed away. Passing mixes back and forth, my ears turned to his back catalogue, as they did for many. “Deep Fried Frenz” became a fixation, both scathing and joyful, with DOOM’s […]

Buddies Without Organs — Episode #9

ICYMI, the ninth episode of our Buddies Without Organs podcast was released just before Christmas. It’s about the event. We branched out from The Fold after it left us pretty defeated, but picked up what is arguably its central concept and explored what Deleuze had to say about it in a few other places, including […]

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30 years ago today, history ended as Mikhail Gorbachev brought an official end to the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, in Hull, I was born, and just like that, history started again. You’re welcome. Originally tweeted by Matt Colquhoun (@xenogothic) on December 26, 2021.

Merry Xmas Everybody

I can’t listen to Christmas music at home. When family come round, they’re totally up for it, but the shop playlists are enough for me. You can’t escape them outside, so I’d prefer not to hear them inside. Bah humbug, and all that. But I enjoyed reading this interview with Noddy Holder in the Guardian […]

Accelerationism and Ideological Breakdown: Further Comments from Ed Berger and Others

A lengthy comment on the last post, left by Ed Berger, that I cannot bear to leave languishing out of sight below the line, as usual: Another great post, Matt, and another in the long tradition of spurring an overly-long reply on my part that is probably better suited for a blog post… There’s probably […]

Accelerationism and Ideological Breakdown: Notes on Recent Developments

We are excited to announce the formation of the Accelerationism Research Consortium, a brand-new collaborative initiative to bring empirical, in-depth research and creative solutions to the study of insurrectionary accelerationism. Originally tweeted by Accelerationism Research Consortium (@TheARConsortium) on December 22, 2021. Yesterday, Dylan recently pointed out the founding of a new research centre dedicated to […]

Elections on Acid: Notes on Boric and the Left for T+U

As was recently reported, I was beamed into Trafó Gallery in Budapest last night, speaking about and riffing on the content of T+U’s latest zine, “ACID”. Due to network connectivity issues, I prerecorded my spiel and was shone out, Videodrome-style, as cathode rays. Below is a transcript of what I said, discussing “acid” in Mark […]