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XG Reading Group 2.4: A Grift in Space-Time

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Winter Walks XIII

Photographs taken on the outskirts of Halifax in December 2020.

Blogger’s Digest #07 (01/04/2021)

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The Slow Cancellation of… Sorry, What Were We Talking About?: Some Concessions and Further Notes

Thanks to Matheus Calderon, who sent over the text for Noys’ lecture. Below is a more in-depth commentary on Noys’ talk, made up of a few concessions, notes and further confusion following my previous post. With that previous post in mind, let’s turn to what Noys actually had to say. You can watch the talk […]

First Lambs

The Slow Cancellation of… Sorry, What Were We Talking About?

I was sorry to miss this recent talk from Benjamin Noys. I only heard about it after the fact. Here’s the abstract: In the face of what Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Mark Fisher have called ‘the slow cancellation of the future’ contemporary theory has often responded by stressing the utopian possibilities of ‘inventing the future’ or turning to […]

The Inertial Endogamy of Covid Capitalism

I was talking to Sam the other day about hauntology and, in the midst of our conversation, I was reminded of a story I heard recently about black market sperm donors. This analogy requires a little introduction… Sam and I had briefly discussed Nick Land’s essay “Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest”. In the […]

Winter Walks XII

Photographs taken on a walk around the neighbourhood in December 2020.

“Countercultural Bohemia as Prefiguration”: Time is Away on NTS Radio

Elaine Tierney and Jack Rollo, aka the amazing Time Is Away, have shared their commission for our January For k-punk event as the March installment of their monthly NTS show. Read the intro and listen below: This programme was commissioned by the ICA as part ‘For k-punk’, an online event to mark the publication of […]

Kill the Bill: More on the Thoughts of the Police

No surprises that things have gotten worse with the recent UK protests. After protestors trashed property and set fire to a police van on Sunday night, the current response from the media and politicians has been particularly telling. The violence was disproportionate, counter-productive, inflammatory, unnecessary, etc. There has been no mention of initial police escalation […]