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El zahorí de los nuevos malestares del siglo XXI

A new article about the Spanish translation of Mark Fisher’s final lectures has been published in ABC Cultural, written by Javier Villuendas. Both Germán Cano and myself were interviewed for it. Germán and I will be talking together with Luciana Cadahia at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque in Madrid this coming Tuesday, in a […]

Toward a Philosophy of Wingwalking

For Steve Albini Time was, I could move my arms like a bird Cruising at altitude, somewhere between earth and void, I am buoyed my atmospheric tensions. My body reorients itself, twists into air-resistant shapes, hurtling horizontally, manoeuvring otherwise, bird-like and yet also not like anything else at all. I am a plane. I am […]

Billie Eilish’in Pop Kartezyenizmi: XG in Manifold

A Turkish version of my 2020 post “Billie Eilish’s Pop Cartesianism” is now online over at Manifold, translated with added explanatory notes by Hasan Cem Çal. Check it out here.

On Orphans and the Abolition of the Family: A Teach-Out

This short text was read aloud as a teach-out to those gathered at the Apartheid Off Campus encampment at Newcastle University on 3rd May 2024. Hello. My name is Matt Colquhoun. I’m an adoptee, a writer and currently a philosophy PhD student here at Newcastle. I’m researching the politics of family abolition and its centrality […]

Descent into the Maelstrom: A Note on Deterritorialization and Anti-Hauntology

“Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat was not the only object in the embrace of the whirl. Both above and below us were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building timber and trunks of trees, with many smaller articles, […]

Marcuse, Hegel, Fichte, Brecht

Photographs from my recent trip to Berlin. Prior to the discussion held at Brecht-Haus, on “Sehnsucht nach dem Kapitalismus“, the German translation of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire lectures, I spent an hour with the graves of Marcuse, Hegel, Fichte and Brecht. It was beautiful there.

Sky

A childhood spent driving to all destinations, no matter the distance, has meant that flying never gets old. From my seat by the window, the sun glamours in rivers and ponds. The speed of it all. Forty-five minutes in the air to cover most of an island home I have yet, in thirty-two years, to […]

A Primer on Utopian Philosophy at the Lubber Fiend

On Saturday 27th April at 2pm, I will be chatting to Jon Greenaway at the Lubber Fiend in Newcastle upon Tyne, all about his new book, A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch. Come through! It’s free.

Postcapitalist Desire: XG in Revista Ñ

Following the recent Spanish translation of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire lectures, I was interviewed by Luciano Lahiteau for Revista Ñ, the cultural supplement of Clarín, Argetina’s biggest newspaper. We talk about the lectures, how they came about, and unpack some lingering questions around Fisher’s approach to class and our desire for other words. You can […]

“I’m watching out of my ears”: Echoes of Narcissus in the work of Arthur Russell: Recording Now Online

My recent talk at Metal Liverpool is now available to listen back to. It’s a bit of a slow burn… The first half is a discussion of the ideas most central to my latest book, Narcissus in Bloom, and then I take a left turn away from visual culture — the overarching concern of the […]