Frozen Warnings: A Playlist
Repeater asked me to create a playlist as a soundtrack for my book Infinite Resignation, published this year. To be honest, I don’t have the energy to write elaborate exegeses for each bespoke selection detailing its rarified nuances and subtleties.
“Communist Realism”, by Mark Fisher
Today marks nine years since the publication of Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, a concept and work that he would apply and build upon in his analysis of culture and politics thereafter. Summed up briefly as "both a belief and
Tariq Goddard on Jean Baudrillard and the 1980s
In this quarter's edition of Spike Art Magazine, Repeater publisher Tariq Goddard discusses why Jean Baudrillard is the key thinker of the 1980s. By the 80s Jean Baudrillard appeared to want to interpret the world in different ways and not to
Repeater Books at Unsound Festival
Last month Repeater's Director of Marketing Tamar attended Unsound Festival in Poland with our authors Paul Rekret and Ryan Diduck. The main Repeater events were a Mark Fisher reading group organised around the forthcoming collection k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings
Tariq Goddard and Carl Neville review John Carpenter at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
To celebrate Halloween, Repeater publisher and author of Nature and Necessity Tariq Goddard and Resolution Way author Carl Neville reviewed John Carpenter's live show for The Quietus! Everyone will have their favourite John Carpenter movie, ours is Escape From New York. Or
HALLOWEEN FLASH SALE! 50% off selected titles
To celebrate the haunting season we are offering 50% off our selected titles for the next 48 hours. What a better way to get into the Halloween spirit than reading about pessimism in Western philosophy (Infinite Resignation) or discovering the
“You can count me out… in” — Alan Bradshaw on fifty years of the Beatles’ “Revolution”
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' "Revolution", Alan Bradshaw, co-author of Advertising Revolution: The Story of a Song, from Beatles Hit to Nike Slogan, recounts the story of one of the most famous and controversial adverts of all time. Fifty
Listen to Daniel Spicer’s Turkish psych compilation!
In anticipation of the release of Daniel Spicer's new book The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych (1965-1980) next week, have a listen to a Turkish psych compilation Dan compiled for The Wire's primer series in 2011. Listen to it here. The book is released
Read an extract from Mad Skills
Next week we'll be publishing Ryan Alexander Diduck's Mad Skills: MIDI and Music Technology in the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of MIDI and it's impact on the ways music is made and consumed. From today you can read an extract from
Watch Kodwo Eshun’s inaugural Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture
The Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture is hosted annually in January by the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Each time, a speaker will be invited to engage with the themes and ideas written about by Mark with an