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An Introduction to Narcissus in Bloom

Last year, Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s radical bookshop, selected Narcissus in Bloom to be a part of Beacon, their current affairs subscription bundle. To introduce the book to subscribers, they sent me over a few questions and I recorded some answers. They’ve just recently uploaded that video to their YouTube channel. A few months later, Lighthouse invited […]

DJ Seinfeld and the Undeath of Rave

A DJ Seinfeld edit of Burial’s “Archangel” has gone viral and deeply polarised opinion online. Within a few hours, Seinfeld (even with a name like that) had to say something to the effect of “sorry, I guess, but it’s really not that deep.” I feel bad for him, honestly. Personally, I think the track bangs. […]

New Tenderness 019

An hour of woozy tracks for the faltering arrival of spring; the disorientated return of a world in delay. TracklistRafael Toral, “Fifths Twice”Bishop / Rezaei, “Bulgar Rose”Ulla, “Song”Burial, “Unknown Summer”Mhm, Mhm, “Demonstrate”William Basinski, “A Red Score in Tile”Kode9, “Astro-Darien (Part 2)”Silvia Kastel, “Xantharmony”96 Back, “H34RTBR0K3N (9696

Mark Fisher und die »Sehnsucht nach dem Kapitalismus«

Wollen wir wirklich, was wir zu wollen behaupten? Diese Frage stellte sich der britische Kulturtheoretiker Mark Fisher in seinem letzten Werk »Sehnsucht nach dem Kapitalismus«, das dieses Jahr erstmals auf Deutsch erscheint. In  der Diskussion mit dem Herausgeber des Buches, Matt Colquhoun, geht es – in einem ideengeschichtlichen Ritt durch das Denken der Neuen Linken, […]

Psicocapitalismo y revuelta onírico-política

On 20th March 2024, I will be talking about Mark Fisher at the invitation of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Circle and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. It will be a keynote address preceded by a discussion featuring Sinaí Banda Bernal, Jacqueline Calderón Hinojosa and Edgar Morales Flores, and moderated by María Alejandra de la Garza […]

“The Death of Rave” Revisited: Notes on and a Transcription of the CTM Panel Discussion

As blogosphere discourse seems to have settled into a new quietude, I’m interested in documenting events in meatspace more intentionally in 2024. Amongst friends, conversation regularly turns to the state of the club scene here in Newcastle. There was a new energy here post-lockdown, with new events and venues springing up every few months, as […]

New Tenderness 018

A live mix of tracks put together in my flat over Christmas and New Year; one hour of (some of) my favourite things released in 2023. There are so many favourites missing, and I’d thought about polishing this selection and extending it to two hours, smoothing out some of its rougher edges, but after many […]

“I’m Watching Out of My Ears”: Echoes of Narcissus in the Work of Arthur Russell

I’m going to be at Metal in Liverpool later this month, extending the argument of my latest book, Narcissus in Bloom, from painting and photography to music, looking at how a queer narcissism emerges from Arthur Russell’s world of echo. More details below. You can find tickets and directions here. The Future Station talk by Metal Liverpool […]

Cute/Acc’s Postmodern Princedoms

I. A Short History of Accelerationism At the time of its naming in 2008, accelerationism was an attempt “to think the in-itself of capitalism outside of any correlation to the human.” Drawing primarily on the works of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and the more recent writings of Ray Brassier and Nick Land, […]

No más mañanas de lunes deprimentes

Caja Negra will soon publish the Spanish translation of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire lectures. In advance, they have posted a translation of my introduction on their blog here. They have previously published a few other translations on the blog as well: an exclusive introduction to the third volume of Mark’s K-Punk writings, which you can […]