Idealism, Solipsism, and the Mournful Mind

06Oct19

There is a well known letter that Mark Twain wrote to his friend Joe Twichell soon after the death of Twain’s wife ‘Livy’ which constantly returns to me. It has come to my mind more and more recently as I have had too many occasions to think about the death of someone I knew. In […]

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Tags: idealism, irad kimhi, mark fisher, mark twain, mourning, solipsism

Upcoming talks

27Feb13

Now that I’ve made it through my PhD comprehensive exams I will be able to update the blog more regularly though it will most likely take the form of working out some of the issues I will be dealing with in my dissertation. On an Ungrounded Earth is in the last stages of proofing and hopefully will […]

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Tags: Brassier, mark fisher, On an ungrounded earth, reza negarestani, Slime Dynamics, Speculative Aesthetics, Tristan Garcia

Accelerating Outwards: Land and Sci-Fi

01Oct12

In a trilogy of posts about escaping the Earth, Land is in perfect form over at his blog Urban Futures. In the first part Land discusses how in exploring the Shanghai 2010 Space pavilion the future is bound to a lack of hardware and an emphasis on children as the potential inhabitants of outerspace. He […]

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Tags: accelerationism, capitalist realism, mark fisher, nick land, outward bound, sci-fi, sci-fi western, warhammer 40k

Review/Ramble: The Dark Knight Rises

05Aug12

There will be spoilers! Besides the shadow of the Aurora shooting as well as the ridiculous comments from Romney’s camp that Bane was somehow riffing on Bain capital (suggesting that the Romney camp is incapable of a two second wikipedia search to note when Bane was created) most of the talk around the Dark Knight […]

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Tags: batman, charlie jane anders, christopher nolan, dark knight rises, mark fisher, OWS

Days in the Dark

06Nov10

The second week of January is shaping up to be a deluge of darknesses: January 12th – Dark Materialism January 13th –Black Metal Theory II – Melancology January 14th – Speculative Medievalisms January 15th – Decay Culture I will be speaking at the last three – it should be an interesting week in London.

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Tags: black metal, dark materialism, darkness, gabriel catren, kpunk, mark fisher, reza negarestani