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In the Dust of This Country: a reflective look on the results of the 2019 UK general election

I am sad, and I am worried, but most of all I’m just really fucking angry.  In the wake of the biggest Labour election defeat since the 80s will I personally be ok? Probably, will other people? Probably not. The Conservative party have won an election on a base of social media targeted lies, propped up by unbelievable media bias, and overall because of Brexit. Yes, … Continue reading In the Dust of This Country: a reflective look on the results of the 2019 UK general election

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Identity Politics & the Fractured left: an Analysis of Mark Fisher’s Exiting the Vampire Castle

I want to begin by stating that this essay does not exist as yet another white, cis, straight, man attacking idpol. There’s already enough high profile, low profile, intelligent, and pseudo-intelligent ‘philosophers’ who have do this as a means of preying on disenfranchised young men, if anything this is an attack on them, a direct attack on their own “ideology”. My own journey through the … Continue reading Identity Politics & the Fractured left: an Analysis of Mark Fisher’s Exiting the Vampire Castle

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The Demise of the once brilliant Black Mirror

The charm of Black Mirror used to lay in its sense of place, it’s social, national, and cultural identity. The very same thing that charmed me about Mark Fisher’s cultural analysis, the writing of Line of Duty, and the exaggerated social history of Peaky Blinders. What charms me about all these is their identity, their inherent Britishness, and it’s become increasingly more evident that Charlie … Continue reading The Demise of the once brilliant Black Mirror

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Neo-Liberalism and Climate Change: Extinction Rebellion is a Businessman Trying to Con the Planet

It’s been pretty clear for a while that the anthropocentric world is being destroyed by Capitalism, by the human, our society seems to amble on as though nothing is happening, walking blindly into a crisis. Though this is finally now frequently reported by news media, becoming the centre point of liberal white tv programmes, it seems that society for the most part doesn’t want to … Continue reading Neo-Liberalism and Climate Change: Extinction Rebellion is a Businessman Trying to Con the Planet

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Scale and Awe: Mike Nelson’s The Asset Strippers at the Tate Britain

This blog/diary/e-magazine has been something I’ve mused about for a while, and though it is definitely influenced by the K-Punk writings of the late Mark Fisher, I hope that I’m able to create my own identity within these reviews, ramblings, essays, opinion pieces, whatever you may want to call them. He works with scale in ways I couldn’t even consider, seamlessly jumping from delicate woolen … Continue reading Scale and Awe: Mike Nelson’s The Asset Strippers at the Tate Britain

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