Semiotics of the End: Boredom at the End of the World

Dreams about the end of the world are not, perhaps, anymore the fruits of despair and fear alone. They are Continue reading →

Jonas Mekas’s Cinematic You

This was where the wind blew meI saw youI recorded youI’m not sure I ever understood youI’m just a passerbyFrom Continue reading →

Peter Sloterdijk: Living in the Mountains of Imperial Foam

Peter Sloterdijk was unfortunate in writing about the existential problem of luxury in modern social life, especially given the Eurozone Continue reading →

Laughter as a Critical Tool for Liberation

The question of what society is and how it operates is one that has been analyzed extensively in continental philosophy. Continue reading →

An Oasis in the Desert of the Real: On the Relationship Between Map and Territory

“It is abstraction in its precise, literal sense… complete absence of quality, a differentiation purely by quantity and by applicability Continue reading →

Anti-Hauntology: Iglooghost, Mark Fisher, and the New Digital Modernism

In February this year I wrote a 4 part piece on the idea of anti-hauntology. Part 1 looked at the Continue reading →

Popular (Neo-)Modernism: Fisher, Meillassoux and Novelty

In the recent Anti-Hauntology debate Matt Bluemink and Matt Colquhoun discussed ways out of a current mode of culture that Continue reading →

Eternal Action: Christopher Nolan’s Objects of Anti-Accelerationism

In Tenet time is stalled for forever plunder. As a child, I never liked riding on tilt-a-whirls or other spinning Continue reading →