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Ljubljana, August 2021

An Inexplicable Reference…

Doug Lain references a post I wrote a year ago in his latest video and I’m not sure why… He doesn’t seem to actually engage with it, which makes it kind of creepy and baity. A reference for reference’s sake. Within the first few minutes, Lain misattributes a Mark Fisher quote to me. In an […]

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What’s Next From Zer0 Books?: A New Series from Buddies Without Organs

The future of Zer0 Books looks bright. In recent weeks, it has become an unlikely hub of activity and planning for various comrades. Having long since admired each other around the Twittersphere and elsewhere, Zer0 Books is bringing people together to establish a vibrant network of thinkers and producers, all working under one roof. The […]

What Was Forgotten: Notes on The Shining, Doctor Sleep and Hauntological Stoicism

Some of Mark Fisher’s best writings on hauntology orbit Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, whether writing about the film directly or The Caretaker’s sonic expansion on its themes. Sound is central in general here. Kubrick’s films are all innately “listenable”, Fisher notes, and The Caretaker distills this down to the haunted ballroom, which is already an […]

A Pure War?: Late Dispatches from the Authenticity Olympics

Some on the left seem to have had a traumatic encounter with the University system, especially in the US. Comfortable posturing is big there, where tenured professors with what is arguably the best job in the world bang on about radical alterity and then go out to lambast ‘Berniebros’ and canvass for centrists. Accordingly, the […]

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XG Reading Group 3.6: Agamben and Neo-Anarchy

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Notes on Adoption

A Twitter thread from the other day that had an unexpected response. I wanted to pin it here for posterity. On BBC Woman’s Hour, former journalist Eleanor Bradford came out defiantly as a mother who had returned her adopted son to the care system, because he was a problem child and the family was struggling. […]