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January 1, 2021
Blogger’s Digest #4 (01/01/2021)
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December 30, 2020
2020: The Year in Review
It’s been a busy year of boredom, books, blogposts and bust-ups. Usually, at this time of year, I write some meandering post summarising the last twelve months, reflecting a bit on all that has happened. This year, in 2020, I honestly don’t have the energy. It has been a year defined, in my mind, by […]
December 29, 2020
Winter Walks V
Photographs from a walk over Marsden Moor, taken back in November 2020.
December 28, 2020
“There is a world to be transformed”: Interview in Terrabayt
Many thanks to Ege Çoban and Koray Kırmızısakal for sending over questions about my recent work on Mark Fisher and my interests more generally. I’m really pleased with how this came out. Written interviews aren’t so in vogue at the moment but I prefer them infinitely to any other kind — duh, I’m a writer, […]
December 24, 2020
Winter Songs: Christmas with Lindisfarne
My Dad used to always listen to Lindisfarne at Christmas. As a teenager from Sunderland, the band’s annual Christmas concerts at Newcastle City Hall were legendary and the central event of his holiday season. Since the first one (or, rather, three) in 1976, the band kept them up for over forty years. He told me […]
December 23, 2020
Rainbows: From D.H. Lawrence to the NHS
In perusing the usual plethora of end-of-year lists, I was struck by a comment made by Joanna Briggs in her contribution to the White Review‘s annual survey of books read by book-lovers. As is often the case, these end-of-year lists are not restricted to books released over the last year, with some preferring to just […]
Brontë Country III
Another visit to another COVID-quiet Brontë parsonage in Haworth, back in early December. My first memory of this place has preoccupied me for so long in the shadows of this blog that I can’t help but linger on it every time we’re near it. “Haven’t you taken enough pictures of the parsonage” is my girlfriend’s question […]
December 22, 2020
Closed-Eye Agoraphobia
For as long as I can remember, I have had panic attacks on the edge of sleep. Not often, I should add, but occasionally. As I feel myself drifting into unconsciousness, the body becomes primed for a dissociative dream state. The blackness of the inside of my eye lids opens out like the cosmos and […]
Against Covid Libertarianism
Foucault critiqued the structures of the medical establishment, for worry they could control us. Deleuze and Guattari asked why the masses desire their own subjugation. Yet here we are, in a medically justified lockdown and no one is talking about them in this regard. Originally tweeted by Meta-Nomad (@meta_nomad) on December 21, 2020. The flipside […]
Postcapitalist Desire — Book Launch at Housmans Bookshop
I’m very excited to share the news that the launch for Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher will be hosted online by Housmans Bookshop on 14th January 2021 at 7PM GMT. I’ll be in conversation with James Butler, co-founder of Novara Media and easily one of the most interesting writers and speakers on […]
