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Blogger’s Digest #09 (01/06/2021)

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Under the Blood Moon

On Friday night, shortly after midnight, a man collapsed outside our house. We thought he was a casualty of the Bank Holiday reveries — and may well have been — but his fall was severe. He was unconscious and struggling to breath. We called 999. It was a busy night and a Community First Responder […]

Long Live The New Flesh: Notes on Madame Bovary

The other day I was talking to someone about those classic pieces of literature that are so often avoided, blotted out by their own reputations. But there is a special thrill in reading one anyway and finding its reputation is warranted, not just historically but also in the present. This past week I read Gustave […]

XG Reading Group 2.7: Bad Actors

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Zionist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

A reader of the blog recently expressed concerns around the use of or allusions to antisemitic tropes in recent posts (1, 2) on the current crisis in Palestine-Israel. I appreciate the tension within these posts and, though I feel my previous posts have been clear, I want to try and be clearer still, if only […]

Zionist Realism: What If We Had a Strike for Palestine and Everyone Came?

Thanks again to Islam al-Khatib, who has become such an important person on my timeline for all that she shares on this current crisis in Palestine. It is, once again, to her that I must defer. Islam has been posting a lot recently about a general strike in support of Palestine, taking place for many […]

Deceleration: A Blog & Patreon Update

Things have been slowing down here in recent months. There have been a few reasons for that. The most exciting, I hope, is that I’m working on some manuscripts, which are struggling to be born on my desktop. Following Egress, this has been an exciting and daunting task, and I have struggled repeatedly to settle […]

A Deleuzian View of Palestine (Contra Israel)

What is happening in and around Gaza at the moment — both on- and offline — is horrifying. In our contemporary media age, there is a sense that social media is on a constant gaslighting mission. Establishment journalism drags out the same old noncommittal and evasive reporting, talking about tensions from all sides, whereas citizen […]

Buddies Without Organs — Episode #06

ICYMI, we buddies three returned after a short break, not to discuss Deleuze (at least not directly) but Chronosis — the new comic by Reza Negarestani, Keith Tilford and Robin Mackay. Listen above via YouTube, or go check out buddieswithout.org for more info and more places to listen.