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November 7, 2020
Politics and Joy
Every time an election happens, I’m left wanting to pen something rousing — win or lose — but it’s impossible. Mark Fisher said it all already. “Democracy is joy”, he wrote in 2015 (quoting Carl Neville quoting Alexis Tsipras). He notably wrote that after the left, around Europe, had once again been defeated. Today, that […]
Hallowe’en
Hallowe’en felt like passing through a veil this year. October was spent getting settled in the new house and so it was not dominated by the usual month-long anticipation for Hallowe’en that it usually is. November, however, feels suitably spooky this year. It’s ghosts and ghouls from here on out until Christmas tries to fill […]
November 4, 2020
Beckettian Election: Notes on the Afropurgatory of Afropessimism
If, in medieval theology, purgatory was a transitional state, in which souls are purified on their way to heaven, then what the modern era has invented is the purgatorial as a mode in its own right. Is this not the mode of Beckett’s universe — a universe in which compulsion and waiting never end, a […]
An Introduction to Eerie Aesthetics
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November 3, 2020
On the Eve of the Election: Notes on Deleuze and the Reterritorialising Voyage of Punk Conservatism
This post initially began its life as a sequel to “TERF Tactics” — just when you thought the cringe quota had been reached for online idiocy, there was plenty more to despair over. However, as I found myself up late in a compulsive writing mood, and as I watched the clock tick past midnight, I […]
November 2, 2020
Keeping Up with Hauntology (Part 2)
An interesting comment from Padraig on the recent hauntology post: Though it is worthwhile pointing out, I’m not so sure that the central issue here is just that of the class envy & resentment of the negatively disavowing, of the reductively class unconscious, but you are certainly right to draw attention once again to the […]
November 1, 2020
XG Reading Group 1.16: “Anthropessimism, or Slimulacra and Slimulation”
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The Weird and the Eerie Revisited: XG on Acid Horizon
Many thanks to Craig, Adam and Will for having me back on the Acid Horizon podcast once again to talk about Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie. This was a great chat on Hallowe’en Eve. Listen above and read the introduction below. Step through the oddly placed door and enter the world of the […]
Blogger’s Digest #2 (01/11/2020)
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TERF Tactics: On Reason and Being Reasonable
In the UK, after over a decade of living under the Conservative party, we know what “polite fascism” is. We know how the Conservative party have tried to shake off their reputation as the “nasty party” and we can see clearly the extent to which there public relations strategy has worked — Boris Johnson has […]
