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Nine

News has been going around various networks that Ashle V aka Nine aka @OuvreLeChien68 passed away over the weekend. She was active in mine and a bunch of people’s Discord servers, and she contributed so much to those spaces. I’d go so far as to say that she was instrumental in helping me set up […]

XG Plague Play-Through: Resident Evil 8 (Part One)

I love the Resident Evil games. I grew up with them, and the last few years of reboots and remakes have been wonderfully nostalgic if weird and disorientating. I’ve written about them a couple of times, exploring the games’ machinic unconscious, within which ancient folklore and postmodern conspiracy collide. And I had a lot of […]

Postcapitalist Desire: XG on Hermitix

I was the first guest on the Hermitix podcast, back in those heady days of late 2018. I am now also the 78th guest. Many thanks to Meta for having me back again, on a podcast that covers such an insane amount of ground, to once again talk about Mark Fisher and, more specifically, the […]

Untitled #24

Blogger’s Digest #08 (01/05/2021)

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XG Reading Group 2.6: Capitalism’s Transcendental Mirror Factory

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How to Gener8 a Movement

Along with The Apprentice, there’s no better show than Dragon’s Den for tracking developments in a sort of pop-corporate thinking, and discovering just how innocuous presentations of our boring dystopia can be. No doubt aware of my masochistic viewing habits, the YouTube algorithm threw this clip from Dragon’s Den at me this morning. The pitch […]

Untitled #23 (With Notes on a Migrated Archive)

Attempting to pick up from where I left off… Before Christmas, I picked up my film camera again and tried to get back into the habit of taking photographs daily. It worked for a while, although getting the film developed was quite expensive… Then my film camera broke, but the itch has since remained. So […]

Third Actors: XG at the rA/Upture_2 conference, OFF-Biennálé Budapest

Next month I’ll be taking part in the rA/Upture_2 conference, organised as part of the OFF-Biennálé in Budapest, Hungary. I’m going to be talking a bit about postmodernism’s deflation of political agency and how projects like accelerationism and speculative realism hope to intervene in the depressed space this creates. After brief talks from myself, Ulrike […]

Encounters with Photography and Community: Alumni Talk at the University of South Wales

Many thanks to the staff and students at the University of South Wales in Cardiff who invited me to take part in their photography alumni symposium at the end of February 2021. Below is the talk I gave on the day, talking about my work and reflecting on my various sidesteps since then, and what […]