Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 62

Less Hauntography, More Salvagepunk

As I continue to plug away at my own post on the new Oneohtrix Point Never album, Enrico Monacelli has pipped me to the final line and written an amazing essay for Nero that is such a magnificent punch to the gut of cliched Fisherians I did a little air-punch whilst reading it. The way […]

XG Reading Group 1.17: “Between the Thing and Kurtz”

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Mark Fisher Revisited — Video

I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s previously advertised conversation with Tariq Goddard, head honcho at Repeater Books, and Tõnis Kahu, lecturer at Tallinn University who wrote the afterword to the Estonian translation of Capitalist Realism. We’d hoped to be there in person for a panel at the Kirjandusfestival Prima Vista in Tartu, Estonia, but, well, the world’s […]

Winter Walks I

Photographs taken on two separate walks around Huddersfield, in the Castle Hill and Birkby areas.

The Archipelago — XG on Movement Radio

I recently had an excellent conversation with Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou about my work and the work of Mark Fisher, which is due to be broadcast on movement.radio tomorrow at 15.00 Eastern European Time. Tune in! We could have kept talking for a lot longer. If you listen in and enjoy it, let them know! There may […]

Cultural Prefiguration in 2020

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Vague Memories of Oneohtrix Point Never: A Prelude

I’ve gutted to have not seen OPN live since then — especially the MYRIAD tour, that passed through London whilst I was there but it sold out by the time I realised. Here’s hoping after coronatime is over we can get back to a venue sometime soon, not just for the sounds but the striking […]

Tory Maoism

In response to this tweet on the apparent inevitability of an independent Scotland, professional lib Ian Dunt came in with a wild take that I’m going to be thinking about for a while: Brexit plus Johnson equals this. It is as simple as that. It didn’t have to be this way, even with the Leave […]

Mark Fisher Revisited — Prima Vista Festival, Estonia

This Saturday, I’ll be speaking alongside Tariq Goddard at an event on the legacy of Mark Fisher, organised as part of the Prima Vista literary festival in Tartu, Estonia. We’ve been talking about this event for many months and had hoped to be there in person but the first, and now second, lockdown have scuppered […]

Melancholy and Joy

I am continuing to think about the disconnect between two of my own posts. Perhaps these posts together speak to the emotional rollercoaster that was this presidential election — even for someone who is only really invested at a cultural level. The first post, on Frank Wilderson’s Afropessimism, describes the potentials to be found within […]