Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 40
October 24, 2021
Repeater Takes Over
Incredible news landed on Twitter last night, completely out of the blue: Repeater Books, the team that started and ran Zer0 for its first seven years, have bought Zer0 Books. The imprint will continue with all existing contracts honoured, but there will be a moratorium on commissioning until further notice. The outpouring of joy from […]
October 23, 2021
October 22, 2021
(Funko) Pop Modernism?
Another Mark Fisher meme, another reason to reaffirm his insistence that we “go overground”. This was all discussed in the aftermath of the Met Gala, but this time there is an explicit focus on capitalist paradoxes — see original tweet replies — so let’s just hammer this point home. Expanding on an earlier tweet, what […]
XG Reading Group 3.4: The Sensing Layer
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October 20, 2021
Interiority (After Sebald)
The portrait of Sebald that emerges from the pages between is not that of a unique individuality, but a romantic caricature of what Sontag called the ‘artist as exemplary sufferer’, a kind of secular saint driven almost to madness, in this case by the weight of history. I thoroughly enjoyed this review of Carole Angier’s […]
October 9, 2021
October 7, 2021
Are NFTs Frigid Stars?
There’s a thread going round today where someone explains why NFTs are a scam. Frankly, I don’t know a thing about NFTs, but I do know a thing or two about capitalism, it’s development and recent attempts to intervene in how it functions — as well as how capitalist ideology afflicts even those who might […]
October 4, 2021
Reflective Centrism
Over the last week, much of the UK’s left-wing media has been decrying Kier Starmer’s current campaign of public hypocrisy. The list of contradictions feels never ending at this point. If Starmer has previously announced his support for something in public over the course of the last two years, chances are he’s ridden back over […]
October 1, 2021
Blogger’s Digest #13 (01/10/2021)
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September 28, 2021
In Conversation with Liara Roux: Live on Instagram
Liara Roux’s new book Whore of New York is being published by Repeater Books very soon. In orbit of the release, Liara is having a few conversations over on her Instagram. Last week, she spoke to Adam Zmith, author of the amazing Deep Sniff, and tomorrow we’re going to have a chat too! Tune in! […]
