Archive

This blog was born on October 10th 2017.

To make Xenogothic‘s development more easily navigable for any blog spelunkers out there, here you can find a breakdown of my main posts and series, organised by topic by year.

Sometime in 2021, in a moment of overwhelming nostalgia, I decided to migrate the archives of seven previous blogs over to xenogothic.com for old time’s sake. I have deleted some posts that were a little too personal — or terrible — but the majority can be found using the links below. Note: there is overlap during 2017. Posts listed with a date prior to 10/10/2017 were previously hosted elsewhere.

You can jump to different years by using these anchors: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007

2023

Mark Fisher

For K-Punk: The Weird and the Eerie [10/01/2023]
Nothings and Somethings, This and That: The Fisher-Function Six Years On [13/01/2023]
Flashes of Light, Echoes of Drumbeats [15/02/2023]
A Painted Blockage: Satoshi Kizawa on Postcapitalist Desire [17/02/2023]
Two More Translations of Postcapitalist Desire [16/03/2023]
Preface to the Greek Translation of Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie [12/04/2023]
Por qué el pensador pop Mark Fisher fascina a los jóvenes de la izquierda: XG in El País [26/04/2023]
Truth has the Structure of Fiction: Introduction to the Greek Translation of Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie [10/05/2023]
»Sehnsucht nach dem Kapitalismus«: Postcapitalist Desire in German [30/08/2023]
Mark Fisher Was Not Russell Brand: XG in the New Statesman [18/09/2023]
Consciousness Raising and #MeToo [19/09/2023]
A Critique of Morality, or an Ethics of Critique? [30/09/2023]
The ’00s on Trial: The Dark Shimmer of Sex Appeal [30/09/2023]
Further Notes on Capitalist Surrealism [19/10/2023]
On Mark Fisher: XG in Metaxis VI [19/10/2023]
A Spurious Marketplace of Ideas: Online Ads and Consciousness Deflation [22/10/2023]

Narcissus in Bloom

Come Spring [05/02/2023]
Post-Graduate Desires: XG at NCAD, Dublin [08/02/2023]
Post-Graduate Desires: Recording Now Online [03/03/2023]
Illness #01: Recording Now Online [09/06/2023]
Narcissus in Bloom: Book Launch Events in London and Newcastle [28/07/2023]
Who Really Invented the Selfie?: XG in LitHub [14/08/2023]
Narcissus in Bloom: Event at Hoxton Books [23/08/2023]
Are We Narcissistic Enough?: XG on Repeater Media [29/08/2023]
Is Another Narcissism Possible: XG on Red Medicine [31/08/2023]
Narcissus in Autumn: XG in Dazed [19/10/2023]
“We Are All Narcissus”: A Response from Steve Bamlett [04/12/2023]

Essays Elsewhere

Note Sul Surrealismo Capitalista: XG on Nero [19/01/2023]
Digital Demonology: XG in the Walker Art Reader [06/06/2023]
Asit Komünizm: XG in Manifold [20/06/2023]
The Primal Wound: An Anti-Oedipal Consideration [11/09/2023]

Accelerationism

Nowhere Fast: What Happened to Accelerationism? (Part One) [03/01/2023]
A Note on Speed [10/02/2023]
I Was A @_Geopoetics Meat Puppet [02/06/2023]
Jake Chapman’s Accelerate or Die: The New /Acc Primer [12/07/2023]
Effective Accelerationism: XG on Acid Horizon [20/12/2023]

Ongoing Identity Crises

Mind Spray [03/01/2023]
The Drugs Did… Something [21/01/2023]
Mattie [15/02/2023]
If You Lived Here, You’d Be Hume By Now [15/02/2023]
Spring Fragments [11/03/2023]
One Year Off and On [07/04/2023]
Emosystems [25/06/2023]
Better Queer? [28/06/2023]
Lo-Fi and Queer Time: Notes on Reclaimed Futures and Nostalgia [11/07/2023]
Fingernails [08/08/2023]
The Monkey [25/08/2023]
Tic-Tac-Toe: Writers’ Blocks, Childhood Blocks [29/09/2023]
The Conspiracy: Day One on E [25/10/2023]
Learning to Love Finally: Notes on Eros, Trauma, and the Bittersweet [20/11/2023]

That Wonderful, Bittersweet Summer

Colour Theory (Part One) [18/06/2023]
Colour Theory (Part Two) [18/06/2023]
Colour Theory (Part Three) [19/06/2023]

Philosophy

Hauntology AND/OR Hauntography [15/04/2023]
Shmialectics [25/04/2023]
Tickling Hume’s Toe: Revolutionary Feelings at Edinburgh Radical Book Fair [12/11/2023]

Politics

Trans Joy is Resistance: Notes from the Newcastle Trans Rights Protest [23/01/2022]
Neoreactionary Postmodernism [09/02/2023]
Weaponised Words in the Culture War: The Return of Dis-Identity Politics? [16/02/2023]
Transience: Notes on and Against the Media-Political Complex [31/03/2023]
The Post-Left’s Marketplace of Ideas [19/07/2023]
Notes on a Post(-)Critique [22/07/2023]
Palestine and the Archive to Come [14/10/2023]
Palestine’s Wounds are Not So Recent: On Hamas, ISIS and Consciousness-Raising [26/10/2023]

Culture

Space-Time Attunement: Notes on Edward George and the Strangeness of Dub [05/03/2023]
The Year is 1984: Notes on Hypofiction [19/03/2023]
Thief of Fire: RIP Mark Stewart [21/04/2023]
Great Britain and the Children of Azkaban [30/05/2023]
“I’m Sorry It’s Not Blue”: RIP Cormac McCarthy [14/06/2023]
The Person Who Listens to Everything: Notes on Sonic Tyranny and the Vibification of the Future [23/06/2023]
“I Don’t Know How to Feel”: Untangling the Hypofiction of Barbie [25/07/2023]
Róisín Murphy Against Glampunk [02/09/2023]
Oneohtrix Point Never Again [01/10/2023]

Podcasts, Radio and Other Events

New Tenderness 007 [11/01/2023]
New Tenderness 008 [18/01/2023]
New Tenderness 009 [14/02/2023]
Illness: A Night of Red Medicine [08/03/2023]
New Tenderness 010 [17/03/2023]
Kitty’s Itty Bitty No Titty Kitty [20/03/2023]
New Tenderness 011 [11/04/2023]
Itty Bitty No Titty Kitty: XG at the Lubber Fiend [16/05/2023]
Cringe and Commitment after the End of History: XG at the Lubber Fiend [05/06/2023]
New Tenderness 012 [07/06/2023]
The Wiki Show w/ Rebekkeh [08/06/2023]
The Itty Bitty No Titty Kitty Committee on Slack’s Radio [18/06/2023]
New Tenderness 013 [03/07/2023]
New Tenderness 014 [30/07/2023]
New Tenderness 015 [24/08/2023]
Trans-Lament 2 [05/09/2023]
New Tenderness 016 [28/10/2023]
New Tenderness 017 [11/12/2023]

Interviews

Interview in Thrausma Journal [24/06/2023]
“The Rediscovery of Circadian Rhythms”: Philip Maughan in Noema Mag [04/08/2023]
Užívat si prázdno: XG in revue Prostor [20/11/2023]

Photography

New Year I [22/01/2023]
New Year II [22/01/2023]
Throw Eggs at Deep House Bros [10/02/2023]
Spring is Here [12/03/2023]
Flowers in Time [10/04/2023]
Untitled [01/06/2023]

Misc.

Dream #1 [06/01/2023]
The Cracks in Everything [07/03/2023]
ChatGPT Wrote This Blogpost [21/03/2023]
Liz [16/07/2023]
No Dream Without Folly [25/10/2023]
2023: The Year in Review [31/12/2023]

2022

Mark Fisher

Five Years [13/01/2022]
Disintensification-by-Canonisation: Thoughts on the Fisher-Function [20/01/2022]
For K-Punk 2022: Robin Mackay’s ‘By The North Sea’ [21/01/2022]
For K-Punk 2022 // By The North Sea [28/01/2022]
Jornada de Vigilia por Mark Fisher [15/02/2022]
“Maintaining Now the Spectres of Mark.” [20/02/2022]
Caja Negra’s Mark Fisher Vigil [23/02/2022]
Egress Review: “Un lenguaje común” by Óscar Brox [08/03/2022]
Notes on Capitalist Surrealism [17/03/2022]
Mark Fisher in Translation: Transnational Communities of Capitalist Realism [07/04/2022]
Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of my Life: Zer0 Classics Edition [08/05/2022]
Mark Fisher in Translation — Video Now Online [09/06/2022]
Desiderio Postcapitalista. Le Ultime Lezioni. [03/07/2022]
ポスト資本主義の欲望 — Japanese Translation of Postcapitalist Desire [18/07/2022]
Rob Doyle on Ghosts of My Life [26/07/2022]
Storm Crow [01/08/2022]
Mental Health is (Still) a Political Issue: On Mark Fisher’s Lost Futures at the Moth Club [10/08/2022]
For K-Punk: Ghosts of My Life [12/09/2022]
For K-Punk: Ghosts of My Life — Full Lineup Announcement [04/10/2022]
Resurfacing, Resisting: Capitalist Realism in 2022 [05/10/2022]
For K-Punk: Ghosts of My Life — Photos and Audio [24/10/2022]

The Time I Spent Having a Very Public Mental Breakdown and Manically Writing a Lot About Writing

Mundane Schizophrenias: Notes on Wounds and Degraded Ideals [22/02/2022]
Wound Stories: The Orphan-Unconscious in Harry Potter and Anti-Oedipus [09/03/2022]
Our Last Night Together [15/03/2022]
Home [17/03/2022]
Relationships and the Real: Thoughts on Desiring-Production as Social Production [15/05/2022]
Sex and Subjective Instability [16/05/2022]
Dreams of the Liminal [18/05/2022]
What Crisis? [19/05/2022]
The Maternal Return [20/05/2022]
The Problem of Love Unregulated [21/05/2022]
Masculinity, Patriarchy and the New Tenderness [22/05/2022]
Burn the Diaries [23/05/2022]
Coming Home to Self [24/05/2022]
Wounds [26/05/2022]
Strength [27/05/2022]
Negative Participation [28/05/2022]
Meatspace [28/05/2022]
Meatspace 2 [07/06/2022]
Cause and Affect: On Spinoza and Mark Fisher [14/06/2022]
Untitled (Three Days of Calm) [17/06/2022]
House Sparrow [20/06/2022]
Questions [22/06/2022]
Material Love [24/06/2022]
Trauma Self [25/06/2022]
Lion [25/06/2022]
Lost and Safe [26/05/2022]
No Transformation [27/06/2022]
Seeing and Seen [28/06/2022]
Reading [01/07/2022]
Knights of Journals [02/07/2022]
Taking Risks [04/07/2022]
Absurdity [05/07/2022]
Actualising Literature [06/07/2022]
Mind and Matter: A Note on Acid Communism [14/07/2022]
A World of One’s Own (Part One) [15/07/2022]
A World of One’s Own (Part Two) [16/07/2022]
A World of One’s Own (Part Three) [17/07/2022]
A World of One’s Own (Part Four) [18/07/2022]
Deleuze and the Temporalities of Mental Illness [19/07/2022]
Sense, Sensation, Sensuality: Sex and the Body without Organs [20/07/2022]
A World of One’s Own (Part Five) [21/07/2022]
A World of One’s Own (Part Six) [22/07/2022]
Collioure [23/07/2022]
Discharged: Notes on Annie Ernaux and the End of a Diary [23/07/2022]
I Cried At Your Show With The Teenagers: On Phoebe Bridgers [24/07/2022]
Surfeminism: Notes on an Androgynous Writing [27/07/2022]
Ouija Words: On Sylvia Plath [28/07/2022]
Midnight Automatic [29/07/2022]
Writing After Silence [30/07/2022]
Unlatched Red Being: On Anne Carson and Phoebe Bridgers [31/07/2022]
Diary Fragments [03/08/2022]
Synchronicity and the Will-To-Chance: Notes on the Ruptured Space-Time of Trauma [04/08/2022]
Notes on Estrangement: Decreation and Ekstasis [08/08/2022]
Researching Sleep: Writing Lacunae [11/08/2022]
Coming Through: Notes on Solitude and Substance, Fashion and Poetry [25/08/2022]
Stigmatext / Statictext [18/11/2022]
The Meds Stopped Working [19/12/2022]

Politics

Vile Venerations, Past and Present: Thoughts on Blair and Colston [07/01/2022]
Everyday Authoritarianism [12/01/2022]
Oedipal Israel: Notes on Oedipus Beyond Psychoanalysis [22/01/2022]
Ukraine [28/02/2022]
Disestablished Orders: Notes on Abstraction and Empathy in Culture and Politics [02/03/2022]
Peterson versus Foucault [14/03/2022]
Notes Against Reading Widely (For a Pluralist Militancy) [15/03/2022]
Can Straights Be Queer? [31/03/2022]
Nomads of the Deep: Notes on Palestine and the Orphan-Unconscious [22/05/2022]
A Note on The Madwoman in the Attic [02/08/2022]
“En este lugar nunca estuvo Palbo Ruiz Picasso”: Notes on the Deterritorialization of Málaga [17/12/22]
Abolition of the Family, Abolition of the Individual: Notes on Anti-Oedipus [22/12/2022]

Film & TV

Spencer [03/01/2022]
It’s Mattel’s Hyperreality, We Just Live in It [31/01/2022]
The Demon of the Continent: Notes on Prey [12/08/2022]
Capitalism and Control: The Oedipal Rise of Steve Jobs [15/08/2022]
Drug War, Time War [13/12/2022]

Music

There’s No End [10/02/2022]
The Spectre of Indie Sleaze [09/03/2022]
The Return of the New (Again) [06/04/2022]
Woodstock ’99: A Mismanaged Structure of Feeling [23/08/2022]
“New Mask” by NY Graffiti [03/09/2022]
Make It Nu: Thoughts on Modernism and Rap Metal [13/12/2022]
2022: Albums of the Year [14/12/2022]

Translations

Translating Silence: Notes on Bousquet and Learning French [04/02/2022]
“Joe Bousquet and his Double” by René Nelli [Draft Translation] [17/02/2022]
“Joe Bousquet and the Morality of Language” by Ferdinand Alquié [Draft Translation] [19/02/2022]

NFTs

NFTs and Open Access: Power in the Age of Digital Individualism [24/01/2022]
NFTs and Open Access: Promiscuous Communities [03/02/2022]

Events

A World Without Any Future?: XG at Kunstraum Lakeside [31/01/2022]
Anti-Oedipus, Pro-Antigone: XG at Unsound 2022 [29/09/2022]
Anti-Oedipus, Pro-Antigone: Notes from Unsound 2022 [14/10/2022]

Reflections

2022 Slug [11/01/2022]
Friends are Good [11/04/2022]
Spring News [01/05/2022]
Transitions [23/05/2022]
Coffee in Crisis [24/07/2022]
Patchwork: A Reflection [23/12/2022]
2022: Year in Review [31/12/2022]

Photography

New Year’s Day [02/01/2022]
Winscar [05/01/2022]
Haworth [09/01/2022]
The Royal George [16/01/2022]
Top Withens [23/01/2022]
All Centre @ Spanners [08/02/2022]
The Royal George II [11/02/2022]
Harlow Carr [16/02/2022]
Rain [18/02/2022]
Slaithwaite Canal [27/02/2022]
Move (Part One) [09/03/2022]
Iceboy Violet at the Star and Shadow [22/03/2022]
Move (Part Two) + Tusk Mini [04/04/2022]
Incursions (11/04/2022) [14/04/2022]
Armstrong Bridge [15/04/2022]
¡PASCUA! [27/04/2022]
Incursions (18/04/2022) [29/04/2022]
No Familiar [10/05/2022]
Incursions (09/05/2022) [13/05/2022]
Late May [16/06/2022]
Incursions (23/05/2022) [19/06/2022]
Saz [21/06/2022]
Tynemouth [23/06/2022]
Whitley Bay [23/06/2022]
25/06/2022 [29/06/2022]
Possible Hope [13/08/2022]
Beachfires [27/08/2022]
Kuba Ryniewicz’ Parallel Stories From Here [09/09/2022]
London [15/11/2022]
Sully x Flowdan [17/11/2022]
Marsden Rock [19/11/2022]
Blanchland Moor [21/11/2022]
Bonfire Night [23/11/2022]
Night Walks [25/11/2022]
Corin [27/11/2022]
Penance Stare + Divide & Dissolve [08/12/2022]
November [09/12/2022]

Essays Elsewhere

Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition [19/04/2022]
“A Subject Cut Into Pieces”: Interview in The Courier [30/06/2022]
『無条件加速主義入門』Japanese Translation of the U/Acc Primer [28/11/2022]

Podcasts & Radio

The K Files Teaser Trailer [15/01/2022]
Blobtology: XG on Horror Vanguard [09/02/2022]
The K-Files: Episodes So Far [21/02/2022]
The K-Files: Episode #3 — “Who’s Pulling Your Strings?” [07/03/2022]
The K-Files: Episode #04 — “Have You Been Enjoying Yourself?” [15/03/2022]
Getting Out of our Faces with Zer0 Books Patreons [23/03/2022]
The K-Files: Episode #05 — “Terminator Vs. Avatar” [12/04/2022]
In memoriam Mark Fisher (1968-2017) — Radio Tribute on Österreich 1 [06/05/2022]
Dream Flats w/ Kitty & Archie on Slacks Radio [21/06/2022]
New Tenderness 001 [05/08/2022]
XG on “Behind the News” [26/08/2022]
Ghosts of My Life: XG on Horror Vanguard [01/09/2022]
New Tenderness 002 [06/09/2022]
New Tenderness 003 [04/10/2022]
New Tenderness 004 [06/11/2022]
New Tenderness 005 [02/12/2022]
New Tenderness 006 [20/12/2022]

Patreon Posts

XG Reading Group 4.0: Postcapitalist Desire [19/01/2022]
Blogger’s Digest #16 [01/02/2022]

2021

Mark Fisher

The Post-Capitalist Realism Generation: Notes on Students, BreadTube and Digital Psychedelia [04/02/21]
The Spectre of Acid Communism [14/03/21]
The Post-Vampire Castle Generation: Notes on Neo-Anarchy in the UK [17/03/21]
Introduction to K-Punk, Vol. 3: English Language Version [12/06/21]
Is There (Still) No Alternative: XG in Ljubljana [30/08/21]
Capitalist Realism and the Eviction of Culture: Notes from Ljubljana [15/09/21]
Total Recoil: Notes on the Body in Mark Fisher’s Feminism [15/12/21]
T+U ACID: Launch at Trafó, Budapest (22/12/2021) [20/12/21]

For k-punk

For k-punk 2021 [20/01/21]
Test Dept: Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture 2021 [22/01/21]]
“Why we started a club night for our teacher, Mark Fisher”: For k-punk in Huck Magazine [30/01/21]
“A teacher ‘who really gave a shit’”: For k-punk in The Art Newspaper [23/02/21]
“The critical legacy of theorist Mark Fisher is a creative springboard for a new wave of musicians and thinkers”: For k-punk reviewed in The Wire [11/03/21]
“Countercultural Bohemia as Prefiguration”: Time is Away on NTS Radio [24/03/21]
Repeater Radio present: K-Punk Marathon [07/06/21]
Solidarity at the Rave: For k-punk on Acid Horizon [23/08/21]

Postcapitalist Desire

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher — Hardback Out Now [12/01/21]
Postcapitalist Desire, Melancholy, Psychedelia and Mark Fisher: XG on Interdependence with Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon [13/01/21]
Post-Work with Will Stronge [18/01/21]
Psychedelia with JD Taylor [19/01/21]
Consciousness Raising with Hari Kunzru [23/01/21]
Desire with Dr Isabel Millar [25/01/21]
Postcapitalist Desire: XG in Conversation with James Butler — Now on YouTube! [17/02/21]
“Giving Up the Ghost”: Postcapitalist Desire in the LA Review of Books [21/03/21]
Postcapitalist Desire: XG on Hermitix [06/05/21]

Egress

Badiou’s Platonic Exit: Egress Turns One [10/03/21]
Communities of Loss: A Brief Reflection [14/04/21]
Egress: Live on the Hermitix Podcast [05/08/21]
Egress and Immanence: Hermitix Debrief [07/08/21]
Egreso: Sobre Comunidad, Duelo y Mark Fisher — Out Now! [01/12/21]
Diálogo con Matt Colquhoun: Discussing Egreso with Pepe Tesoro for the IECCS [13/12/21]
A Note on “Egreso” [14/12/21]

Narcissus in Bloom

Unconditional Love: A Note on Acid Narcissism [20/08/21]
Narcissus in Bloom: Talk at Newcastle University [08/11/21]
Observatory Crest: On Narcissus in Bloom [29/11/21]

Translations and Essays Elsewhere

一个无条件加速主义Primer I: Chinese Translation of the U/Acc Primer [08/01/21]
The Geology of Malls: XG for Plaza Protocol [19/02/21]

Hauntology and Accelerationism

The Philosophy of Salvagepunk: XG at the Association for the Design of History [07/01/21]
Hauntology: Where Were You Before ’92? [15/01/21]
Un-Popping the Bubbles of Pop: A Brief History of Anti-Hauntology [06/02/21]
Anti-Hauntology: Where are the New Forms of New? [06/02/21]
Anti-Hauntology: Further Notes on Temporal Specificities [09/02/21]
A Moment of Renewal: Notes on Badiou/Acc [16/02/21]
Badiou/Acc: A Response to Ed Berger [16/02/21]
Badiou/Acc: Further Responses from Vince Garton and Ed Berger [17/02/21]
Anti-Hauntology: Notes on Acid Horizon [18/02/21]
Badiou/Acc: Terror and Parody with Ed Berger [20/02/21]
The End of History 2: Stagnant Boogaloo (Snyder Cut) [02/03/21]
Notes on Lenin and Accelerationist Meta-Terrorism [08/03/21]
A Brief History of the new: Guest Lecture with Ctrl Network [17/03/21]
The Slow Cancellation of… Sorry, What Were We Talking About? [29/03/21]
The Slow Cancellation of… Sorry, What Were We Talking About?: Some Concessions and Further Notes [30/03/21]
Next Week’s New [15/04/21]
Third Actors: XG at the rA/Upture_2 conference, OFF-Biennálé Budapest [26/04/21]
Children of /Acc: Waiting for a Post-Pandemic Politics [14/07/21]
Orgies of Stupidity Fuck the Painful Present Away [23/07/21]
Parameters of Change: Notes on Queer Accelerationism and Libidinal Materialism [13/08/21]
A Brief History of the New: Recording Now Online! [22/11/21]
“What was needed was accelerationism…”: A Note on Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities [30/11/21]
Accelerationism and Ideological Breakdown: Notes on Recent Developments [23/12/21]
Accelerationism and Ideological Breakdown: Further Comments from Ed Berger and Other [24/12/21]

Coronavirus

Covid Libertarianism and Molecular Freedom [05/01/21]
Covid Libertarianism and Capitalist Realism [06/01/21]
Hype(rstition) and Unbelief: On GameStop and Coronavirus [27/01/21]
Covid Libertarianism: Notes on Althusser and a Spanner in the Works of Ideological Reproduction [18/02/21]
The Inertial Endogamy of Covid Capitalism [28/03/21]
Regarding the Pain of Royals [18/04/21]
Post-Covid Horizons [22/07/21]

Palestine

A Deleuzian View of Palestine (Contra Israel) [13/05/21]
Zionist Realism: What If We Had a Strike for Palestine and Everyone Came? [17/05/21]
Zionist Realism: Is There No Alternative? [18/05/21]

Politics

The End of Trump or the End of History [09/01/21]
Cutting the Knot of Incompetence [11/01/21]
National-Identity Politics: On the Contradictions of New New Labour [03/02/21]
What is an Institution?: On the Thoughts of the Police [15/03/21]
Kill the Bill: More on the Thoughts of the Police [23/03/21]
Ecologies of Class: Prince Philip’s Conservationist Politics [09/04/21]
Our Zany Ministers: On Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson, the Personal and the Political [30/06/21]
Olympic Refusal: Simone Biles and Herbert Marcuse [29/07/21]
Communism Within, Communism Without: The Paranoia of Capitalist Realism [12/08/21]
Reflective Centrism [04/10/21]
Toothless Critique: Free Speech in the Vampire Castle [28/10/21]
Elections on Acid: Notes on Boric and the Left for T+U [23/12/21]

Philosophy

Junk Capital: On the Anti-Burrovian Trajectory of Nick Land [04/01/21]
AI is Good Actually: Notes on Commie Grimes and Intelligence & Spirit [03/06/21]
AI is Good Actually: A Further Note from Hypnosifl [27/06/21]
Learning and Trauma: The Sharp Object of Ideology [07/07/21]
Postmodernism and Gender Realism [21/07/21]
RIP Jean-Luc Nancy [24/08/21]
Actual/Virtual [11/09/21]
Discipline is a Double-Edged Sword: Notes on the Misuse and Abuse of Foucault [19/11/21]

Personal Reflections

Richard Humble (1925-2021) [05/03/21]
Bad Queer [16/04/21]
Nine [09/05/21]
Under the Blood Moon [31/05/21]
Rest in Power, Dawn Foster [16/07/21]
Notes on Adoption [02/12/21]
A Note on Cold Rationalism [13/12/21]
An Adoptee’s Anchor [20/12/21]
30 [26/12/21]

Music

DOOMscrolling [01/01/21]
They do not live nature as nature, but as a process of production: On Lenz and Lorde’s Desiring-Productions [21/08/21]
DONDA [30/08/21]
Still Sucks: Transitory Music in the 2020s [02/11/21]
Merry Xmas Everybody [25/12/21]
2021 Playback: Selected Earworms [28/12/21]

Literature

Long Live The New Flesh: Notes on Madame Bovary [28/05/21]
Stronger Than Death: A Note on Poetry and Grief [17/06/21]
Interiority (After Sebald) [20/10/21]

Film & TV

Framing Adam Curtis [23/02/21]
How to Gener8 a Movement [29/04/21]
Mare of Easttown: 2021’s One True Cop Show [09/06/21]
Cruella [10/06/21]
The Tomorrow War [10/07/21]
Pierrot le Fou [06/09/21]
Happy Hallowe’en [31/10/21]
What Was Forgotten: Notes on The Shining, Doctor Sleep and Hauntological Stoicism [08/12/21]

Gaming

Peak Boring Dystopia: On the Legacy of FarmVille [02/01/21]

The Blogosphere

Knowing the Unknown Knower [13/04/21]
Blogging as Infinite Conversation: Preamble [26/06/21]
Blogging as Infinite Conversation: Lately I’ve Been Feeling Like Arthur Rimbaud [04/07/21]
In Defence of Pop Philosophy: Notes on Philosophistry [09/11/21]
A Further Defence of Pop Philosophy: Comments from Terence Blake [11/11/21]

NFTs

Solidarity and Cryptocurrency: Notes on NFTs [19/02/21]
Are NFTs Frigid Stars? [07/10/21]

Memes

Memeing History [30/06/21]
Memeing Politics [01/07/21]
Imagine You Have Two Memes…: On Memetic Negativity [23/07/21]
The Met Gala [14/09/21]
(Funko) Pop Modernism? [23/10/21]

Repeater and Zer0

Repeater Takes Over [24/10/21]
Against Individualizing: Personal Beef or Group Critique? [01/11/21]
Perpetual Yawn: More from the Ex-Zer0 Set [10/11/21]
Spiked: Notes on Psychedelic Fascism in the UK Media Landscape [13/11/21]
Repeater Takes Over… Tariq Weighs In… [27/11/21]
A Pure War?: Late Dispatches from the Authenticity Olympics [07/12/21]
What’s Next From Zer0 Books?: A New Series from Buddies Without Organs [10/12/21]
An Inexplicable Reference… [11/12/21]
Accessibility and Post-Punk: Thoughts on the Difficulty of Pop Philosophy [12/12/21]
New Missives from the Cranks [17/12/21]

Kingston-Upon-Hull

Hull and the Bomb [25/02/21]
Hull and the Rise of Neoliberalism [14/06/21]

Podcasts

Buddies Without Organs — Episode #03 [19/01/21]
An Introduction to Eerie Aesthetics: Now on Mixcloud! [14/02/21]
Buddies Without Organs — Episode #04 [22/02/21]
Extinction, Apocalypse and Desire: XG with Thomas Moynihan on the MIT Press Podcast [09/03/21]
Buddies Without Organs — Episode #05 [22/03/21]
Buddies Without Organs — Episode #06 [12/05/21]
Literary Ley Lines: XG in the Liminal Lounge [19/06/21]
After the Maestro [23/06/21]
Buddies Without Organs — Episode #07 [02/07/21]
Buddies Without Organs — Episode #08 [13/09/21]
In Conversation with Liara Roux: Live on Instagram [28/09/21]
Buddies Without Organs — Episode #9 [27/12/21]

Photography

Brontë Country IV [06/02/21]
Winter Walks VI [13/02/21]
Winter Walks VII [20/02/21]
Winter Walks VIII [27/02/21]
Winter Walks IX [06/03/21]
Winter (Acid) Walks X [13/03/21]
Winter Walks XI [20/03/21]
Winter Walks XII [27/03/21]
First Lambs [29/03/21]
Winter Walks XIII [02/04/21]
Burning Heather [06/04/21]
Winter Walks XIV [10/04/21]
Encounters with Photography and Community: Alumni Talk at the University of South Wales [21/04/21]
Untilted #23 (With Notes on a Migrated Archive) [28/04/21]
Untitled #24 [04/05/21]
Untitled #25 [20/05/21]
Untitled #26 [16/06/21]
Untitled #27 [03/07/21]
Untitled #28 [17/07/21]
Untitled #29 [31/07/21]
Untitled #30 [14/08/21]
Untitled #31 [28/08/21]
Untitled #32 [04/09/21]
Untitled #33 [25/09/21]
Untitled #34 [09/10/21]
Untitled #35 [23/10/21]
Untitled #36 [06/11/21]
Untitled #37 [20/11/21]
Untitled #38 [04/12/21]
Untitled #39 [05/12/21]
Untitled #40 [11/12/21]
Untitled #41 [12/12/21]
Untitled #42 [18/12/21]
Untitled #43 [19/12/21]
A Persistent Stitch: Winter Walks 2021 [29/12/21]

Patreon Posts

XG Reading Group 2.0: Without Further Badiou [10/01/21]
Blogger’s Digest #5 (01/02/2021) [01/02/21]
XG Reading Group 2.1: Much Badiou About Nothing [12/02/21]
XG Reading Group 2.2: Brassier’s Critique of Transcendental Materialism [26/02/21]
Blogger’s Digest #06 (01/03/2021) [01/03/21]
XG Reading Group 2.3: Situationist NFTs and the Intensification of the Commodity Form [12/03/21]
Blogger’s Digest #07 (01/04/2021) [01/04/21]
XG Reading Group 2.4: A Grift in Space-Time [03/04/21]
XG Reading Group 2.5: Narcissist Realism [16/04/21]
XG Reading Group 2.6: Capitalism’s Transcendental Mirror Factory [30/04/21]
Blogger’s Digest #08 (01/05/2021) [01/05/21]
XG Reading Group 2.7: Bad Actors [27/05/21]
Blogger’s Digest #09 (01/06/2021) [01/06/21]
XG Reading Group 2.8: Interlude [11/06/21]
XG Reading Group 2.9: The Social [18/06/21]
Blogger’s Digest #10 (01/07/2021) [01/07/21]
XG Reading Group 3.0: Revenge of the Real [30/07/21]
Blogger’s Digest #11 (01/08/2021) [01/08/21]
XG Reading Group 3.1: Post-Pandemic Patchwork [15/08/21]
XG Reading Group 3.2: Trust is Key [25/08/21]
Blogger’s Digest #12 (01/09/2021) [01/09/21]
Blogger’s Digest #13 (01/10/2021) [01/10/21]
XG Reading Group 3.4: The Sensing Layer [22/10/21]
Blogger’s Digest #14 (01/11/2021) [01/11/21]
XG Reading Group 3.5: Positive Objectification [05/11/21]
Blogger’s Digest #15 (01/12/2021) [01/12/21]
XG Reading Group 3.6: Agamben and Neo-Anarchy [03/12/21]

2020

Mark Fisher

Accelerationism

Politics

Culture Wars (On TERF Bullshit, the Alt-Right, and Other Idiocy)

Xenofeminism

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Hauntology

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Reza Negarestani and Cyclonopedia

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2019

Mark Fisher

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Cascading Adolescence

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Blobby

2018

For K-Punk

Patchwork

Accelerationism & Capitalism

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The American West

The Weird & The Eerie

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Deep Assignment

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Xenogothic Radio

Blobby

2017

First Things First…

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Events

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2016

Photography

Diary

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University of South Wales

2015

Photography

Diary

Mixes

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2014

Photography

Diary

Beacons Festival

Mixes

Misc.

2013

University of Walse, Newport

Photography

Denmark

Music Photography

Mixes

Early Writings

Misc.

2012

University of Wales, Newport

Music Photography

Maximum Fog

Photography

Family Archive

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2011

University of Wales, Newport

All Tomorrow’s Parties

Music Photography

Photography

Notes

2010

Photography

University of Wales, Newport

2009

Photography

2008

First Blog

[Dead] Mixtape / MP3 Blog

Pyrenees Blog

Orphaned Posts

2007

Lost Blog