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Buddies Without Organs — Episode #05

ICYMI, last week Sean, Corey and I returned with a new episode of Buddies Without Organs. This time we read Deleuze’s essay “On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature” from Dialogues II. Listen above via YouTube or head over the buddieswithout.org to listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.

“Giving Up the Ghost”: Postcapitalist Desire in the LA Review of Books

Few are mourned by the post-millennial left like Mark Fisher. If you know anything about us, then it makes perfect sense. We are a weird bunch, displaced on every level, living in a world terrifyingly different from the one we were prepared for. Between climate change and a rising far-right, our future diminishes daily. Fisher’s […]

Winter Walks XI

Photographs taken on a walk through the Peak District in December 2020.

The Post-Vampire Castle Generation: Notes on Neo-Anarchy in the UK

I’ve been invited to write a text for translation, introducing some of Mark Fisher’s later essays to readers outside the Anglosphere. In particular, I have a desire to articulate the proper context surrounding “Exiting the Vampire Castle” and how Fisher pivoted from there to his “Acid Communism”. This is always a stressful endeavour. I’ve defended […]

A Brief History of the New: Guest Lecture with Ctrl Network

I’m very excited to be returning to Ctrl Network in April to give another guest lecture on “the new”. Last time I spoke at Ctrl Network, I presented new research, which later turned into the introduction to Postcapitalist Desire. This lecture might end up being something similar. A prologue of sorts to a book on […]

What is an Institution?: On the Thoughts of Police

What is an institution? It’s more than just a building or a name or a person. An institution is a “body”. We talk about government bodies or educational bodies. We talk about institutional “bodies” because institutions are sets of relations that both think and act. They are not just one thing. An institution is, in […]

The Spectre of Acid Communism

There’s a nice interview out with Adam Curtis for Jacobin in which he briefly talks about ghosts, Mark Fisher, and his latest series I Can’t Get You Out of My Head: I’d like to ask you about ghosts. There’s a story by M. R. James called “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” […]

Winter (Acid) Walks X

Sometimes out-of-date film gives you interesting results. Photographs taken on various walks back in December 2020 and January 2021.

XG Reading Group 2.3: Situationist NFTs and the Intensification of the Commodity Form

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“The critical legacy of theorist Mark Fisher is a creative springboard for a new wave of musicians and thinkers”: For k-punk reviewed in The Wire

There’s a storming review of January’s For k-punk event in this month’s Wire magazine. Commenting on both our event and the fourth annual Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture, which was given by Test Dept this year, Ryan Meehan writes: The originality of these two events, and the variation between them, speak to the durability of Fisher’s […]