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Egress and Immanence: Hermitix De-Brief

I really enjoyed this chat with Meta the other night and I wanted to add a few notes on things discussed, along with some links. I also wanted to provide a less rambling explainer as to why I relished the opportunity to (tentatively) correct a few missteps in my first book, Egress. I felt a […]

Egress: Livestream on the Hermitix Podcast

James Ellis, the Meta-Nomad, has invited me onto the Hermitix podcast livestream to talk about my book Egress. Catch us chatting live later this afternoon — that’s 5.30pm (London time) on Thursday 5th August. It’ll be available to watch back afterwards as well. [NB: This event was previously postponed. It was originally due to take […]

Egress: Livestream with Hermitix Podcast

James Ellis, the Meta-Nomad, has invited me onto the Hermitix podcast livestream to talk about my book Egress. Catch us chatting live later this afternoon — that’s 5.30pm (London time) on Thursday 5th August. It’ll be available to watch back afterwards as well. [NB: This event was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. It was originally […]

Blogger’s Digest #11 (03/08/2021)

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XG Reading Group 3.0: The Revenge of the Real

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Olympic Refusal: Simone Biles and Herbert Marcuse

An interesting take on Simone Biles’s exit from the Tokyo Olympics from Casey Gerald in the Guardian: America has always asked Black people to give everything we’ve got and then give what we don’t have. And if we did not give it, it was taken wilfully – plundered, as Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote. Biles’s courageous decision […]

Egress: Livestream with Hermitix Podcast

James Ellis, the Meta-Nomad, has invited me onto the Hermitix podcast livestream to talk about my book Egress. Catch us chatting live later this afternoon at 5.30pm (London time). It’ll be available to watch back afterwards as well.

Imagine You Have Two Memes…: On Memetic Negativity

Matheus shared an old blogpost of mine on Twitter earlier today, in which I argued that the right can’t seem to recognise memes anymore. This sentiment is relevant in Peru right now, he notes, because “Rafael López Aliaga, face of the Peruvian extreme right,” has used “the example of ‘imagine you have two cows …’ […]

Orgies of Stupidity Fuck the Painful Present Away

In a 2011 interview with Polish magazine Kronos, Ray Brassier shares a damning appraisal of the blogosphere. Asked about his “love affair” with the speculative realist movement – that is, his vague association and then disavowal of its aims and goals – he does not pull any punches. I don’t believe the internet is an […]