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October 18, 2020
XG Reading Group 1.14: “No Dust Jackets for Pulp Philosophy”
XG Reading Group 1.14: “No Dust Jackets for Pulp Philosophy”
October 16, 2020
Touching from a Distance: Notes on a Lost Footing
Touching from a Distance: Notes on a Lost Footing
The last month or so has been tough and falling for the beautiful melodrama of Phoebe Bridgers after about the fourth recommendation really hasn’t helped me be any more mellow about things.
I was hardly surprised that Phil Elverum is also a fan. I came across the following nod to Bridgers in a recent interview he gave to Pitchfork. When asked about his songwriting style, Elverum explains what it is about lyrics and poetry are resonates with him:
Adrian [Orange] is able to talk about bad fo...
October 15, 2020
The Haunting of Blah Manor
I’ve been thinking a lot about The Haunting of Bly Manor this week — ’tis the season, after all. Following the genuine terror of the first season’s Shirley Jackson adaptation — which I wrote about a couple of times — I found this Henry James affair to be a major disappointment. The narrative tricks deployed are all familiar, as most of them were all put to excellent use last time round — how relationships between people are affected by the impositions of their own personal demons, for inst...
October 14, 2020
“The Classroom of Postcapitalist Desire”: Adam Harper for ArtReview
Adam Harper has reviewed the new collection of Mark Fisher lectures, Postcapistalist Desire, for ArtReview. It’s a lovely text, emphasising the fact that it “was not just his writing that was celebrated after Fisher’s death but his teaching, too, by the lucky few who got to experience it.” It also includes a nod to one strand I expected to be taken more heretically, commenting on Mark’s accelerationism — perhaps even more controversial (and misunderstood) now than it was back in 2016:
Fisher ...
Thinking about the Social with the Exeter Socialist Society
October 12, 2020
XG Reading Group 1.13: “Paraslime Shift”
The Carrot Drop
After moving up to Huddersfield, I had one final day to spend dashing around London. Thanks to Covid-19, the van hire firm were not doing pick-ups so I had to drop the vehicle back myself before getting picked up by my girlfriend later that evening. An eight-hour round trip that we could have done without after an exhausting and nightmarish weekend.
On the bright side, this meant a six-hour lay-over, which I decided to spend in New Cross, hanging around Goldsmiths with Natasha Eves an...
October 11, 2020
XG 3rd Birthday Stream
The blog turns 3 today. Every year I’m that little bit more astounded that this little thing I made whilst sad and subletting in Sydenham in 2017 has become a platform around which my entire life revolves. So here’s to that, I guess.
As is tradition around these parts, all milestones are celebrated with chill AMA videogame streams. I’m going live with some Bloodborne at 20.00 BST on 11th October 2020. If that’s now, come say hello. If that’s in the past, have fun watching me die over an...
