Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 39

Perpetual Yawn: More from the Ex-Zer0 Set

It seems various anonymised authors from Zer0 2.0 have come out in defense of the imprint’s conduct in an essay for Cosmonaut magazine. It’s weird of Cosmonaut to even think this warrants elevating to that platform, honestly, but it is clear they’ve taken Zer0’s own approach to editorial oversight — it’s hard to get through […]

In Defense of Pop Philosophy: Notes on Philosophistry

An interesting post from Simon Obirek, responding to a post of mine from a few months ago, which was about the dwindling vitality of the blogosphere. I have a few thoughts about each of the sections in Simon’s post, so I thought I’d just replicate his titles and offer up some additional notes or perhaps […]

Narcissus in Bloom: Talk at Newcastle University

For any students and staff at Newcastle University, I’ll be giving a talk on November 17th at 14.00 in the Lindisfarne room. Narcissus in Bloom will be a presentation of new research, presenting a condensed version of the argument from my next book, due sometime next year or the year after. It’ll be about selfies, […]

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XG Reading Group 3.5: Positive Objectification

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Still Sucks: Transitory Music in the 2020s

Nu-metal archetypes Limp Bizkit surprise-released their new album, Still Sucks, on Hallowe’en. As a nu-metal kid in the late 90s and early 2000s — who admittedly hasn’t kept up with anything Limp Bizkit-related since their 2003 album Results May Vary, when the genre basically seemed to die — listening to Still Sucks via YouTube was […]

Against Individualizing: Personal Beef or Group Critique?

I’m catching blocks for my recent Zer0 Books post, with Mike Watson now declaring I’m obsessed with him. I am not. I may have more stamina for engaging with this drama than others — it is admittedly becoming quite stale — but I just think the details are important. If I cite Watson’s public posts […]

Blogger’s Digest #14 (01/11/2021)

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Happy Hallowe’en

just thinking about how mr blobby debuted exactly two weeks after ghostwatch and it does feel like an evil spell occurred Originally tweeted by Andrew Pope (@AndrewRPope) on November 14, 2020. Blob Blob Blobby: Towards a New Blobjectivity

Toothless Critique: Free Speech in the Vampire Castle

The Novara Media YouTube channel was inexplicably taken down the other day, before being quickly reinstated following an outpouring of support from both the left, right and centre. But in the aftermath, the conversation has become twisted, with a confluence of events and battlelines seemingly becoming entangled with one another, although inconsistently addressed. The line […]