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February 17, 2021
Badiou/Acc: Further Responses from Vince Garton and Ed Berger
In my previous post on this topic, in which Ed Berger and I basically swapped notes on Maoist dialectics in relation to Deleuze-Guattari and Badiou, I left a nod to Vince Garton. After recently reading a book on Mao’s philosophical influences that Vince recommended at the end of last year, I imagined he might have […]
Postcapitalist Desire: XG in Conversation with James Butler — Now on YouTube!
The sold-out conversation I had with James Butler back in January for the launch of Postcapitalist Desire at Housmans Bookshop is now available to watch on YouTube! Watch above, and go check out the rest of the excellent conversations hosted on Housmans channel recently.
February 16, 2021
Badiou/Acc: A Response to Ed Berger
A great comment from Ed on my previous post which, as ever, I cannot allow to languish below the line. Ed writes: One of the things I’ve returned to off and on lately has been thinking some of these questions in Mao’s (originally Lenin’s, but also Nietzsche’s) inversion of the dialectic, where it’s not the […]
A Moment of Renewal: Notes on Badiou/Acc
I was entertained by this iceberg meme the other day. It’s interesting to see how swiftly things have been moving of late. Interesting omissions to the meme, which I’m sure I saw on an earlier version of the weird Twitter iceberg from a year or two ago, include Rhett Twitter and patchwork. Granted, no one […]
February 14, 2021
An Introduction to Eerie Aesthetics: Now on Mixcloud!
The audio essay I made for Repeater Radio‘s Hallowe’en debut has now been uploaded to Mixcloud. Listen below! It was written as something of an introduction to Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie, as well as an “eerie mix” Mark made back in 2011. If you’d like to read along, I previously uploaded a […]
February 13, 2021
Winter Walks VI
Photographs taken at various points along the A635, in the northmost region of the Peak District National Park, on two separate occasions back in December 2020.
February 12, 2021
XG Reading Group 2.1: Much Badiou About Nothing
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February 9, 2021
Anti-Hauntology: Further Notes on Temporal Specificities
Matt Bluemink has written a further response to the anti-hauntology debate that he inaugurated last week, which is, in part, a response to my last post here. I have a few points of contention here. First, Bluemink writes in favour of a real hauntology. “There are significant differences between Derrida’s and Fisher’s utilisation of the […]
February 6, 2021
Anti-Hauntology: Where are the New Forms of New?
An interesting follow-up by Matt Bluemink to his previous essay on SOPHIE and anti-hauntology. Again, we see a retread of mid-00s arguments here, and various overlapping discussions orbiting around that central conundrum, with both political and cultural significance in the early 21st century: What is “the new”? And what’s so great about the hardcore continuum […]
Brontë Country IV
Photographs taken on two visits to Haworth and Stanbury in December 2020.
