Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 52

Badiou’s Platonic Exit: Egress Turns One

After first watching this film at the start of lockdown — and finding little of value in it, if I’m being honest — I returned to it a few weeks ago, having actually read a fair bit of Badiou now, and found the whole thing much more resonant. It’s a tricky sort of documentary. As […]

Extinction, Apocalypse and Desire: XG with Thomas Moynihan on the MIT Press Podcast

I really enjoyed talking to Tom about his work a few weeks back, hosted by Sam Kelly at the MIT Press Podcast. Tom and I have been friends for a few years now, since Cave Twitter coalesced into the Vast Abrupt. The last time we saw each other, he and Laurie Kent came round for […]

Notes on Lenin and Accelerationist Meta-Terrorism

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, terrorism was an increasingly popular political tool deployed against Russian absolutism. It had proved effective in the past. Russian nihilists — revolutionaries who preached the absolute negation of absolutism — assassinated Alexander II in 1881. A year later, another band of revolutionaries would make an attempt on the […]

Xenogothic Podcast: Episode #01 — Blob Blob Blobby

I spend half my time sitting in front of a big ol’ microphone at the moment. The more it stares at me, the more I want to find other uses for it. Alongside Buddies Without Organs and various recent appearances elsewhere, I thought I’d be led blindly by my web host and sign up to […]

Winter Walks IX

Photographs taken around the local neighbourhood, and on walks from our front door to Huddersfield’s edgelands, back in December 2020.

Richard Humble (1925-2021)

My grandpa, Richard Humble, passed away from Covid yesterday. He was 96. Grandpa to me, Dad to my Mum, and Dick to everyone else, he had recently been struggling with ill health. Having had his first Covid vaccination about a month ago, he went into hospital for a check-up. Whilst there, he caught Covid and […]

The End of History 2: Stagnant Boogaloo (Synder Cut)

Last month I wrote about the strange reception Capitalist Realism gets in the present, especially when readers see how scathing Mark was about his students. But those who take umbrage at this are, in my experience, either too young to remember 2009 or suffer from Noughties Amnesia. Noughties Amnesia is real. Not only is it […]

Blogger’s Digest #06 (01/03/2021)

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Winter Walks VIII

Photographs from two separate walks around Hardcastle Craggs in December 2020.

XG Reading Group 2.2: Brassier’s Critique of Transcendental Materialism

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