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The Will to Deform: The Promethean Gift of Proletarian Prosthetics

This essay was originally published in Insufficient Armour, a collection of essays published in January 2020 by Nero in collaboration with Giorgio Di Salvos streetwear company United Standard.

After seeing that Simon Sellars published his story from the collection last week, I thought Id do the same. I previously posted a video intro to the essay, made over Christmas 2019 with no equipment. You can now read the full thing below. Its a fleshed-out vision of what I feel constitutes this blogs...

Notes on Dialectical Modernism

Before having this really excellent conversation with Kantbot on his podcast the other day, he had told me in advance that he really want to talk about dialectical materialism in relation to the book. My initial response was one of terror I thought, fuck, thats interesting, but I am not sure I am remotely capable of getting deep with that on the fly So, about an hour before we started talking, I wrote my initial rambling response down in a txt file.

I thought this would end up being a small...

Quarantine Clear-Out: XG’s Rare (and Not-So-Rare) Art Books

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Just a shameless shill post: Ive been trying to clear out a load of stuff at my parents house over the last few years and have scraped through the layers of previously ill-advised purchases and childhood mementoes until Ive reached the stuff that I cant just throw away.

Ive just started a new eBay account and Im going to be using it to list rare art books and photo books (and the occasional comic) I own and really dont have the space for anymore. The photo above is everything Ive just...

Front Window #8: Wonderlust

Whilst Im aware that commenting on every comment made about Egress is going to start looking pretty myopic and self-involved soon enough if it doesnt already Ive nonetheless been really intrigued by some of the more consistent comments made about it as it has settled into peoples hands and been read by strangers, particularly those who have deemed its idiosyncrasies to be flaws rather than purposeful features of the text.

Frankly, its hard not to use a public notebook to think about these...

Dialectical Modernism: XG for the Pseudodoxology Podcast Network

On Saturday afternoon I had what might be the most productive conversation yet about my book Egress with the inimitable Kantbot.

Not holding anything back. This one is too good to not get out to you. One of the best chats I've ever had. Pseudodoxology Official Pseudcast Episode 3: Egression (w/ @Xenogothic) is up for free for everyone. Absolute must listen. A personal favorite https://t.co/uh2mqLJJ9l

Learned Dr. Kantbot, PhD (@KANTBOT20K) April 18, 2020

There was so much we could have kept...

Front Window #7: Extremely Online Mode

At some point, about two weeks ago, I dropped off normal quarantine time and entered extremely online mode. I am not sure I have achieved much of anything. I have primarily been tweeting a lot and working from home in a bubble of writers inertia constantly writing nothing.

Below are some highlights salvaged from extremely online mode dreams, shitposts, bot murmurings not because I am particularly proud of them, but because this fragmentary onlineness is far more representative of how the...

We Have the Unconscious We Deserve: Notes on Resident Evil and the 21st Century’s Machinic Unconscious

Its funny thinking back to how we used to play video games as kids. When I first started playing games, progression wasnt really the point. Games all games, irrespective of their design or style were what you made of them.

Before the gaming market became overrun by the open-world sandbox genre, thats precisely how Id play even the most linear of titles: Id complete a level and clear out all the bad guys, then Id just hang around for a bit, role-playing, running about and getting to know the...

Tank Magazine: XG Interviewed

How can the experience of death become an occasion to imagine new ways of living together? In this episode of the TANK Podcast, Guy Mackinnon-Little speaks to Matt Colquhoun about his new book Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher, which narrates the collective mourning of Fishers death while using this experience as the basis for a new politics of community and post-capitalist desire.

It was a pleasure to chat to Guy Mackinnon-Little from Tank Magazine about Egress the other week....

El Realismo Capitalista de “El Realismo Capitalista Está Llegando A Su Fin”

My recent post The Capitalist Realism of Capitalist Realism is Ending' has been translated into Spanish over at Calderón 094.

Check it out here.

“Art in Isolation” and “Eerie Architecture” — XG for Anise Gallery

As the exhibitions at Anise Gallery have come to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic, Ive been working on a bi-monthly column for the gallerys blog to reflect on the role of art in these strange times and also consider the work of some of our artists from within this new context.

The two first posts have gone live. Check them out below.

You can read the introductory post, Art in Isolation, here

Anise Gallery, like so many other galleries and cultural institutions, has found itself...