An Evening In Memory Of Mark Fisher
Friday, March 31 7pm NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, Room 674 New York, NY Facebook Event Please join Repeater Books for an evening in memory of Mark Fisher. Dan Fox, Tariq Goddard and Sukhdev Sandhu will share their reflections on Mark's work and
The Ferguson Revolt Did Not Take Place — Richard Gilman-Opalsky
This is an edited extract from Richard Gilman-Opalsky's Specters of Revolt: On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy From Below (out now). He will be speaking at Five Leaves bookshop, Nottingham (UK) on 16th March (more details/FB event) The Ferguson Revolt Did Not
“Fiat ars – pereat mundus” — Huw Lemmey
The first mistake in analysing the travel ban is thinking its primary aim is to ban travel. It won't work. It isn't intended to work. The Trump administration is not aiming to institute effective policy. It's aiming to communicate. If
Mark Fisher memorial, Sunday 12th February 2017
Mark Fisher (kpunk) 1968-2017 Eulogies by Tariq Goddard, Jeremy Gilbert, Justin Barton (reading), Tristam Adams, Robin Mackay Tariq Goddard We will all remember Mark Fisher. He took us and the things that interested us seriously because they mattered to him too. His attention to what
Mark Fisher, 1968-2017
In memory of Mark Fisher, an inspiration and a friend. Our thoughts are with his family.
Read an excerpt from Seb Olma’s new book on the great digital swindle
Digital Taylorism: Labour Between Passion & Serendipity Attack of the Big Yawn In his fascinating historical study of the rise of happiness to the highly valued commodity it has become in our time, the British sociologist William Davies offers a brief yet
“We live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do”—Tristam Vivian Adams on Westworld
Sci-fi has a pedigree of exploring contemporary issues through the engaging gauze of societies and contexts far removed from painful familiarity. Inequality is explicated through different life forms, nuclear anxiety masquerades as fears of interstellar warfare, loneliness through the guise
Richard Gilman-Opalsky speaks
Last week I had the privilege of speaking with Richard Gilman-Opalsky about his new book Specters of Revolt. Here is a 12-minute excerpt of our conversation and the transcript is below. --John Tintera Richard Gilman-Opalsky on Specters of Revolt [transcript] I really
On coming to metal in middle age – Tariq Goddard reviews Neurosis at Koko
by Tariq Goddard for the Quietus I came to extreme metal, or at least post-metal, sludge rock, or whatever experts in branding would describe Neurosis’s music as, late in life. I had been listening to music which sounded a bit like
A lot of libido, but no women — Eli Davies reviews Supersonic, the new Oasis documentary
Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of bombast in the new Oasis documentary Supersonic. Everybody’s busy going mad for it and making history and being the biggest and the best. In a lot of the interview footage there’s a kind of coked-up