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Postcapitalist Desire: Repeater Books Competition Winners

On Friday, the folks at Repeater Books decided to hold a little competition. To be in with the chance of winning 1 of 3 copies of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher ahead of its official January release, you just had to quote-tweet the tweet below with your favourite Fisher quote: Attention []

Mark Fisher & Lost Futures: XG on the Archipelago

The two-part conversation I recently had with Yannis Orestis-Papadimitriou on his Movement Radio show, The Archipelago, is now available to listen back to online! You can find Part One here and Part Two here, or you can listen via Mixcloud below. This was a wide-ranging conversation and could have likely carried on for hours. Many []

Brontë Country II

Another walk around Brontë country, from the village of Stanbury to the conspicuously-named Brontë waterfall so called for its proximity to things along, I think and then back again across the moors. There was a beautiful fog when we arrived, but it didnt last.

“Turning Nothings Into Somethings”: Phil Christman on ‘Postcapitalist Desire’

A new essay for Commonweal magazine by Phil Christman on Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher is a magnificent read, and maybe does a better job of stitching together Mark’s various perspectives, hopes, ideals and flaws than I’ve managed to before. It’s called “Turning Nothings Into Somethings” and I’d say it is essential […]

Trust No-One

Shout-out to Kode9, recently unearthing Mark’s old essay “SF Capital”, written back when he still didn’t trust the hippies. He noted that the following passage is oddly resonant with the Postcapitalist Desire lectures: The smooth transition from hippy to hyper-capitalist, from slacker hedonism to authoritarianism, from engagement to entertainment, retrospectively reveals what the punks knew […]

The Magic of Relics

Novelty does not necessarily belong to the new. Not anymore. Novus, as the word’s etymological root, means “new” quite explicitly, but it also means “original” or “unusual”. The newness of novelty is not absolute. Increasingly, we might define a novelty as that which has either escaped or is newly present within the typical order of […]

Blogger’s Digest #3 (01/12/2020)

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Kit Kat Communism: XG on Mandatory Redistribution Party

Did you know Sean Morley and I went to school together? Did you know that we live in a society? Hope? I had a lovely and somewhat feverish time catching up with Sean last week. We spoke about left melancholy and the future of the left on the Mandatory Redistribution Party podcast. Listen above via […]

XG Reading Group 1.18: “Calvinist Realism”

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Scared to Live, Scared to Dream: A Concessionary Note on Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

Readers, I’m sorry. I made a mistake. I recently promised you a 10,000 word monstrosity on the new Oneohtrix Point Never album, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, but I think it would be better for all if I cut my losses and abandoned the project. It seemed doable at the time. I had clocked up some […]