Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 41
September 25, 2021
September 15, 2021
Capitalist Realism and the Eviction of Culture: Notes from Ljubljana
I’d like to thank everyone who came out to Nova pošta last Thursday evening to my lecture on Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, recently translated into Slovenian by Pika Golob and Nina Hlebec and edited by Gregor Moder. Maska, who have published the translation, are currently holding a reading group around the book as part of […]
September 14, 2021
The Met Gala
I really wasn’t going to bother. I bashed this out on my lunch break today, but then Owen said it best… I don’t really give a fuck about this but I absolutely 100% know the actual living Mark Fisher would have fucking loved someone wearing a swanky dress with a social democratic slogan painted on […]
September 13, 2021
Buddies Without Organs — Episode #08: The War Machine
ICYMI: episode #08 of the Buddies Without Organs podcast is now live in all the places you can get podcasts. We were joined by Lucy from Wyrd Signal, reading the nomadology chapter of A Thousand Plateaus. Head to buddieswithout.org for more info.
September 11, 2021
Actual/Virtual
It’s been a long time since I’ve really thought about 9/11, but it still doesn’t feel like it was twenty years ago. That’s a very strange feeling — not only because it makes me feel old but also because 9/11 wasn’t a day but a decade (or maybe longer). I initially had no desire, as […]
September 6, 2021
Pierrot le fou
Face of the French new wave, Jean-Paul Belmondo passed away this week. I hadn’t thought about Belmondo for many years. After the news broke, I watched Pierrot le fou for the first time since 2010. (I can oddly remember the last time I watched it: in a Welsh cottage with an old school friend I […]
September 4, 2021
August 30, 2021
DONDA
On his 2016 album The Life of Pablo, Kanye West included an acapella track called “I Love Kanye”. In some ways, it feels like the centrepiece of the album. It’s Kanye saying the quiet part loud, poking fun not so much at himself as the tabloid circus around him. Though the tabloids responded to the […]
Is there (Still) No Alternative?: XG in Ljubljana
I am immensely excited to be flying to Ljubljana soon to give a lecture as part of the Maska Institute‘s 2021/22 Contemporary Performing Arts Seminar. In part a celebration of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, recently translated into Slovenian, I’ll be talking a bit about Mark’s legacy and what more can be said about Fisher’s debut […]
