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An Adoptee’s Anchor

I’m 30 on Sunday and struggling with the thought of it. Birthdays are awful as an adoptee — at least, they are for me. I dread them every year and, even when I’m not consciously thinking about it, I feel my mood grow dark and my desire to hide away grow stronger. I’ve been talking […]

T+U ACID: Launch at Trafó, Budapest (22/12/2021)

I’ll be dropping into Trafó Gallery in Budapest via Zoom on Wednesday night to give a short talk on acid, in response to the marvellous zine put together by T+U, which they are launching on the night. More info below. Be sure to check out T+U’s website here. T+U vol. VI. ACIDMagazine launch at Trafó Gallery22. […]

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Collioure, September 2021

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Collioure, September 2021

New Missive from the Cranks

A group of Zer0 Books authors and ex-employees have written yet another open letter. Not on Cosmonaut this time, but somewhere else. The authors “wish to avoid the exacerbation of a mud-slinging match between readers and authors of Zero Books under Doug Lain’s tenure (to be called Zero 2.0 from herein)” but they also want […]

Total Recoil: Notes on the Body in Mark Fisher’s Feminism

I often wonder what Mark Fisher’s politics would have been like had he not died :/ Would he have pursued the anti-identitarian, accelerationism-adjacent fash-lite politics that is just normal today bc he helped invent it? Or would he have done smth else Originally tweeted by Charlie (@BerlantBro) on November 3, 2021. What has fueled a […]

A Note on “Egreso”

“Egress” was an awkward word to translate into Spanish, or so I’m told. Pepe mentioned this before our chat the other day. “Egreso” is very archaic, he said — and it is in English as well, unless you’ve served in the military. But it seems like Spanish might contain more of a multiplicity of senses […]

A Note on Cold Rationalism

I started psychoanalysis recently, of the Laingian variety. I’m not going to make a habit of blogging about it, for reasons that I assume are obvious, but I had a spooky, serendipitous moment just now and wanted to share it. I had a difficult session tonight, speaking a lot about Mark Fisher’s work, my mixed […]

Diálogo con Matt Colquhoun: Discussing Egreso with Pepe Tesoro for the IECCS

I had the pleasure of talking to Pepe Tesoro a few weeks ago about my book Egress, which has recently been translated into Spanish by Matheus Calderón Torres and published by Caja Negra Editora. The interview was conducted in English but has Spanish subtitles, and a full Spanish transcript will be published at a later […]

Accessibility and Post-Punk: Thoughts on the Difficulty of Pop Philosophy

As the new Zer0 Books YouTube channel has emerged from its rocky transition, it was interesting to see comments of genuine concern made by long-time viewers who want reassurances that the accessibility of the previous management’s output would still be a guiding principle. On the one hand, it is disappointing to see this concern vocalised. […]