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Seven Years

Seven feels weird. Seven feels close to a decade. It still feels like yesterday since we lost Mark, but it is also very apparent how much has change. No Mark Fisher memorial lecture this year. A tweet marking the date gets a lot of engagement, but so much of it has a flippancy that indicates […]

On Blogging (Again)

Simon Reynolds has recently written an ode to blogging for the Guardian, with a more bespoke and in-depth ode to and for the ‘heads over on Blissblog. I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling wistful. I too cannot imagine a life in which I no longer blog (at least entirely). There’s been quiet years, […]

2023: The Year in Review

It feels weird that the year is over. It also feels weird that I don’t think I have much to say about it. For me, it revolved around a wonderful early summer — six weeks across May and June — when I found my own place to live, helped raise a load of money for […]

Effective Accelerationism: XG on Acid Horizon

Accelerationist discourse has returned to the Internet recently, following a flurry of activity amongst the e/acc set. In response, a number of articles and video essays on “effective accelerationism” have attempted to give an account of e/acc specifically and accelerationism in general, most amusingly in Forbes. E/acc is rubbish, of course. It is nothing more […]

New Tenderness 017

One hour of drone, noise, disgusting feedback and haunted textures. This felt like something of a protest mix, put together with a simmering fury, because who has much to say right now. Free Palestine. Tracklist

“We Are All Narcissus”: A Response from Steve Bamlett

Humbled thanks to Steve Bamlett for writing a review of my latest book, Narcissus in Bloom. It is a book that deals with the joys and terrors of seeing and being seen, after all, and this is one wonderful example of feeling seen by a reader. This is exactly how I hoped it would be […]

Learning to Love Finally: Notes on Eros, Trauma, and the Bittersweet

… learning to live is always narcissistic … one wants to live as much as possible, to save oneself, to persevere, and to cultivate all these things which, though infinitely greater and more powerful than oneself, nonetheless form a part of this little “me” that they exceed on all sides. To ask me to renounce […]

Užívat si prázdno: XG in revue Prostor

There’s a new interview with me in the latest issue of revue Prostor, the Czech cultural magazine. The interview was conducted over the phone a few months ago, around the time Narcissus in Bloom came out. Many thanks to Ivan Loginov for the questions and all the work done to translate my garbled thoughts. You […]

Tickling Hume’s Toe: Revolutionary Feelings at Edinburgh Radical Book Fair

I arrive in Edinburgh mid-afternoon, already dusk, and navigate my way around the throngs of tourists, carving out a frigid triangle between the station, my hotel and the Radical Book Fair. I’m early. Gary Younge is already on stage, regaling his audience with stories related to his latest book, Dispatches from the Diaspora — time […]

New Tenderness 016

The weather in Newcastle (and elsewhere) has been so unpredictable over the last month. The first bright, crisp days of autumn have finally arrived, but we were battered by uncharacteristic heat, humid rains, thunder and lightning, and gales as they made their way to us. I’ve spent most of that time alone in my flat, […]