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XG Reading Group 3.2: Trust is Key

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RIP Jean-Luc Nancy

I’m sad to hear that Jean-Luc Nancy has passed away. I spent a few years immersed in his book, The Inoperative Community, and the rethinking of communism that emerged from without. It is not a book I particularly liked or agreed with — finding its reading of Bataille, in particular, to be lacking — but […]

Solidarity at the Rave: For k-punk on Acid Horizon

Celebrating the launch of Kit Mackintosh’s new book, Neon Screams, Repeater Radio had a big weekend takeover. As part of the proceedings, Natasha Eves and I spoke to Adam, Matt and Will of the Acid Horizon podcast about our For k-punk nights, celebrating Mark Fisher, evading neoliberalism, theory and praxis, thinking and dancing.

They do not live nature as nature, but as a process of production: On Lenz and Lorde’s Desiring-Productions

Anna Gaca, writing for Pitchfork, has mixed feelings about Lorde’s new record, Solar Power. I don’t envy her the task of putting those feelings down on the Internet; I’m sure she’s had to log off for a week until Lorde’s fans calm down about her going the album a 6.8. Her review is interesting though. […]

Unconditional Love: A Note on Acid Narcissism

I’m still bouncing back and forth between projects at the moment, struggling to find my footing. This week, having fallen off one horse, I decided to go back to a book I’m working on about narcissism and photography. The general thesis is, for all our moral panicking about an endemic “culture of narcissism”, our historical […]

XG Reading Group 3.1: Post-Pandemic Patchwork

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Parameters of Change: Notes on Queer Accelerationism and Libidinal Materialism

The central point of contention within accelerationist discourses is one of complicity. If there is no “outside” to capitalism, how far is any affirmation of capitalist forces prepared to go? Even when you are affirming the capitalist production of anti-capitalist sentiments — as is the default accelerationist position; accelerating the negation of negation — a […]

Communism Within, Communism Without: The Paranoia of Capitalist Realism

There is a famous adage, attributed to the science-fiction writer William Gibson, that goes: “The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.” If technological progress under capitalism is accelerating, it is doing so under the auspices of a capitalist class that is manipulating its development for their own self-interest. As billionaires hold […]

Sex-Tigers in Spacetime: Notes on Queer/Acc and Participation

I am quite late to the party here but I really enjoyed Adam’s recent blogpost on accelerationism and queerness, entitled “Vulvocosmic Dissolution”, which explores the neglected feminist foundation of accelerationism and its bizarre tendency to become a boys’ club. Adam notes that there was a discussion about this last year, which I typed up here. […]