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December 19, 2020
Winter Walks IV
Answer: old quarries in foggy Huddersfield.
December 18, 2020
The Double-Edged Sword of Postmodernity: On the Trussed-Up Ideology of Liz Truss
Liz Truss, the UK government’s Minister for Women and Equalities, made a truly bizarre speech the other day. It was bizarre for lots of reasons. On the one hand, much of the press — on both the right and the left — have been groaning over her push towards “facts not fashion” in the general […]
Preface to a New Project: Accelerationism and the Future of the New
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December 14, 2020
The Christmas No. 1: A Hauntological Frontline?
Mariah Carey’s ubiquitous Christmas single, “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, recently topped the UK Singles Chart for the first time. This achievement has been celebrated by fans as a kind of retribution for a song that never quite had any “official” recognition as a “modern Christmas classic”. When the song was first released […]
December 13, 2020
XG Reading Group 1.19: “Cursed Be the Cheesemakers”
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December 12, 2020
Winter Walks III
Photographs taken on a walk around the Castle Hill area, just outside Huddersfield.
December 11, 2020
The Right’s Meme Illiteracy
The other day, I saw some memes. One of the first people in the UK to get a COVID vaccine was denounced by online conspiracists because she once posted a copypasta meme. Instead of recognising the meme as a meme, her oft-replicated words revealed her to be a bot deployed by the deep state to []
December 10, 2020
“Look for an Exit”: T-Shirts in the Snow
Killing two birds with one stone: a sneak-peak at a future winter walk post as well as an opportunity to show off some of the new merch. On Saturday morning, I received some samples of the new XG merch, beautifully designed by Craig of the Acid Horizon podcast and Crit Drip fame. Almost as soon []
December 9, 2020
Buddies Without Organs — Episode #02
In case you missed it, the second episode of Buddies Without Organs went live over the weekend. Check it out here on our fancy new website: buddieswithout.org. (Shout out to @thejaymo for that ingenious URL suggestion.) On the website, youll find all of our episodes, along with show notes and maybe, in future, some longer-form []
December 7, 2020
Gaming in a Present Future-Past: Notes on the Polygon Review of Cyberpunk 2077
About a decade ago, back in June, The Last Of Us Part 2 was released, foregrounded by unbelievable hype and followed by a strange outpouring of praise and critique. Hoards of fans slammed the developers, and even the actors, for its brutal storyline that was otherwise resolutely praised by critics. Those critics who were less []
