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November 28, 2020
Winter Walks II
More photographs from recent winter walks, this time taken around the Fixby and Castle Hill areas of Huddersfield, the Holme Moss transmitting station, and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
November 27, 2020
Keeping Up With Hauntology (Part 4)
More from Padraig, following on from the previous post: Just a quick note re hauntology From hauntology to the eerie: we might conjecture that Mark’s theorising of the eerie is itself “haunted” by his earlier theorising of the hauntological. What starkly noticeable is that his last text, The Weird and the Eerie makes no mention […]
November 26, 2020
Keeping Up With Hauntology (Part 3)
Many thanks again to Padraig, who left an extensive and really excellent follow-up comment on my previously blogged response in what is surely now a conversation on hauntology — a conversation on a blog! There’s still life in the blogosphere yet! Padraig writes: Matt, thanks for your excellent and extended response to my earlier very […]
November 25, 2020
Tory Maoism (Part 2)
I’ve had a few deadlines to get out of the way recently and it has swallowed up the last couple of weeks. I’m somewhat shocked by how much time has past… So forgive me if my next couple of posts have me jumping back into a few old conversations… First things first, a couple weeks […]
November 24, 2020
Putting the “Disco” Back into “Discontent”: Between Róisín Murphy and Dua Lipa
hey @xenogothic do you plan writing something about the disco revival in 2020 (dua lipa, jessie ware and róisín murphy)? róisín herself said recently in this interview she wrote kingdom of ends after reading the k-punk book Originally tweeted by alline (@smrknggrl) on November 24, 2020. Honestly, I wasn’t planning to. But now you’ve got […]
November 23, 2020
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Capitalism: A Note from Žižek
There’s been some tweets flying around this evening following a Cambridge Union debate on the current turmoil in the Labour Party. Apparently — I haven’t watched it for myself — Margaret Hodge made the comment that the anti-Semitism of Corbynites is innate because they equate Jews and capitalists. Therefore, their anti-capitalism is “inherently racist”, as […]
November 22, 2020
Billie Eilish’s Pop Cartesianism
Billie Eilish deploying Descartes’ famous “I think therefore I am” in the chorus to her new single doesn’t seem to warrant too much thought. But, accompanied by a video in which she runs around a shopping mall picking up fast food, during a year when her figure has frequently been the subject of tabloid thinkpieces, […]
November 21, 2020
Brontë Country I
I have wanted to return to the village of Haworth for a few years now, ever since I first wrote about Wuthering Heights on the blog two and a half years ago. Since we moved to West Yorkshire at the end of September, I’ve been itching to go. The Brontë parsonage is less than an hour’s […]
November 20, 2020
Buddies Without Organs: Episode #01: Body Without Organs
I am very excited to announce that Sean the hauntonaut and I have started a new podcast together. It is called Buddies Without Organs. The premise is that we are two buddies making neither head nor tail of Deleuze. Each week we pick a concept from Deleuze’s writings, read a relevant chapter from one of […]
November 19, 2020
New Blog Merch: Xenogothic x Crit Drip
It’s been a while since there was any new XG merch. Following the very successful back patches and the “Obelisk” t-shirt I uploaded to Teespring about 18 months ago, it’s been a bit quiet on the wearable blog insignia front ever since. Now that the blog has a new look, however, and with Christmas right […]
