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July 2, 2021
Buddies Without Organs Episode #07: The Fold (Part 1)
ICYMI, the latest episode of Buddies Without Organs is now live wherever you get your podcasts. Listen via YouTube above — where some of you have been leaving the nicest comments, it really means the world to us — or head over the Buddies website here for more places to listen and to read the […]
July 1, 2021
Blogger’s Digest #10 (01/07/2021)
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Memeing Politics
Yesterday’s post was written, somewhat tangentially, with the cover for Mike Watson’s The Memeing of Mark Fisher in mind. I’d already been thinking about Deleuze’s approach to history and its relationship to present appraisals of Mark Fisher and the Ccru the day before the Zer0 tweet went live. The book cover and its literal dramatisation […]
June 30, 2021
Memeing History
Our pervasive tendency to anachronistically historicize all recent contributions to intellectual discourse, showing how they were prefigured rather than what new observations they bring to the table, is itself a product of capitalist realism. That there are resonances between ideas, irrespective of the time and place of their emergence, is important for us to consider […]
Our Zany Ministers: On Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson, the Personal and the Political
The UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been mismanaged from day one – not least because “day one” was marked much later than it should have been. It has led many in the media to biopsy Johnson’s character and his suitability for the job, just as they had done when he was foreign secretary […]
June 27, 2021
AI is Good Actually: A Further Note from Hypnosifl
A really interesting comment from Hypnosifl on my recent post “AI is Good Actually”: In physical theories of dynamical systems there is the notion of “attractors” in the space of possible configurations of the system (the system’s ‘phase space’), where these attractors aren’t due to some external teleological force but just due to mathematical consequences […]
June 26, 2021
Blogging as Infinite Conversation: Preamble
It is well known that the total book is as much Leibniz’s dream as it is Mallarmé‘s, even though they never stop working in fragments. Our error is in believing that they did not succeed in their wishes: they made this unique Book perfectly, the book of monads, in letters and little circumstantial pieces that could […]
June 23, 2021
After the Maestro
A few weeks ago, Sean, Lucy and I were invited by Tom K. Kemp to play After the Maestro, a prototype TTRPG he has been developing “set within an ‘anthropomorphised anatomy’.” Players adopt the roles of groups of microbial and cellular workers during the aftermath of a successful labour emancipation within the inner body, where […]
June 19, 2021
Literary Ley Lines: XG in the Liminal Lounge
Many thanks to Bec for having in the Liminal Lounge. We talked about photography and theory-fiction, and later got embroiled in one of my favourite topics, literary ley lines. Thoroughly enjoyed chatting to Bec, as always, and do go check out her new website, Liminal Worlds, which is already a treasure trove of research and […]
June 18, 2021
XG Reading Group 2.9: The Social
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