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Blogger’s Digest #15 (01/12/2021)

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Egreso: Sobre Comunidad, Duelo y Mark Fisher Out Now!

The Spanish translation of my book Egress has just been published by the wonderful people at Caja Negra Editora. Their catalogue is amazing, and it is a real honour to be published alongside so many books that have had a really profound influence on me over the years. (Beyond the obvious Fisher collection, Derek Jarman’s […]

“What was needed was accelerationism…”: A Note on Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities

For months and months now, I have very slowly been making my way through Robert Musil’s monstrous and unfinished modernist masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities. This is, in part, because of a tenuous connection between the book and Hervé Guibert’s memoir, To the friend who did not save my life. There, Guibert controversially chronicles, at […]

Observatory Crest: On Narcissus in Bloom

Over the past few weeks, at least on Twitter, I have been teasing the near-completion of my next book. It has been responsible for a general slowing of blogging activity as I have tried to write it more or less in isolation, sharing little of its development, occasionally posting unidentified offcuts or giving the occasional […]

Repeater Takes Over… Tariq Weighs In…

Reacquiring Zero Books – A Statement. Originally tweeted by Repeater Books (@RepeaterBooks) on November 27, 2021. All has been quiet for a little while, and as of this weekend, it seems the whole sorry saga is finally over. Though the former team have been getting confident online in the face of a stoic silence from […]

A Brief History of the New: Recording Now Online

Earlier this year, I gave a talk fit for springtime on the history of the new. The talk emerged from my research for a forthcoming book on accelerationism. In fact, as a work-in-progress, it is somewhat disjointed. I read out the drafts for two chapters that are, at present, tangentially related. (Making the bridge between […]

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Discipline is a Double-Edged Sword: Notes on the Misuse and Abuse of Foucault

I’ve been reading a lot of Foucault recently, particularly The History of Sexuality volumes and their surrounding lectures. Guided by the helpful hand of Stuart Elden, I was reading his Foucault’s Last Decade on the train back from Newcastle last night and found myself immediately amused, the next day, to see grumbling about yet another […]

Spiked: Notes on Psychedelic Fascism in the UK Media Landscape

In a recent article for Cosmonaut — praised as the most balanced take on the Zer0 Books debacle (but only by those who were affiliated with Zer0 Books) — a lot of time is spent playing whataboutery regarding who has or hasn’t published certain people affiliated with Sp!ked Online. It’s very petty. In my own […]

A Further Defence of Pop Philosophy: Comments from Terence Blake

Following Simon Obirek’s recent post about the old/new blogosphere — discussed here the other day — Terence Blake has added some further comments of his own. For what it’s worth, Terence is one of my favourite bloggers and if we want to talk about writers who have continued to stay true to the old blogger’s […]