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One More Time Without Feeling: The Pet Shop Boys’ Hotspot

Do You Think It’s Sexy? Rod Stewart Live At The O2

Rival Dreamer: Burial’s Tunes, 2011 to 2019

The Possibility Of A Forest: Unsound 2017

Articles 21

Black Sky Thinking

Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher

Tim Burrows explains how a conversation on a park bench led to an inventive film about a unique, much missed voice in political philosophy and cultural criticism
Books

Psychedelic Reason & The Post-Industrial City: Acid Detroit By Joe Molloy

Written by Detroit native Joe Molloy, Acid Detroit explores the physical, temporal and affective topography of America's most haunted city
Art

A Spectre Is Haunting Mayfair: Haunted Realism At The Gagosian

Drawing on the work of cultural theorist Mark Fisher, the Gagosian Gallery’s present group show features work by Jenny Saville, Ed Ruscha and Richard Prince, among others
Books

Being In Love Is A Sticky Place: Elvia Wilk’s Death By Landscape

An essay collection by Elvia Wilk draws links between Jenny Hval, Mark Fisher, and Hildegard von Bingen
Art

Your Head It Simply Swirls: The Otolith Group in Dublin

John Quin gets vertiginous at Xenogenesis in the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Art

Not A Void But A Plenum: Kode9 & Shannen SP Discuss Ø Project

Hyperdub curators discuss bringing art out of the galleries and into a south London nightclub
Books

Everything Was Dreadful And Then It Was Saved: Richard King Interviews Owen Hatherley

With the publication of his new essay collection, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, talks to Richard King about blogs, brutalism, and the link between Adam Curtis and Mark Fisher
Books

Take Apart My Baby’s Heart: Peter Salmon On Jacques Derrida & Music

On the occasion of the publication of his new biography of the great French philosopher, *An Event, Perhaps*, Peter Salmon looks at the sometimes tortured, sometimes tender relationship between music and Jacques Derrida
Books

The Last Monday On Earth: Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire

Enrico Monacelli dives into a collection of Mark Fisher's final lectures
Books

Music Has The Right To Children: Reframing Mark Fisher’s Hauntology

In an exclusive essay coinciding with the publication of his new book, 'Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy And Mark Fisher', Matt Colquhoun argues that Mark Fisher's observations remain as pertinent today as they ever were
Books

Real And Unconstrained Utopias: On Economic (And Other) Science Fictions

Author Carl Neville examines two recent books bringing the Ccru project of hyperstition into the domain of political economy, the Will Davies-edited Economic Science Fictions, from Goldsmiths Press, and Repeater Books' Futures and Fictions
Black Sky Thinking

Remembering Mark Fisher With The Caretaker’s “Take Care. It’s A Desert Out There…”

A year after Mark Fisher’s untimely death, Adam Scovell reflects on Leyland Kirby’s memorial album, Take Care. It’s A Desert Out There...
Books

For Your Unpleasure: An Essay By Mark Fisher

A new anthology, Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night, includes this essay by theorist Mark Fisher, about Roxy Music, Siouxsie Sioux, the erotic and the savage.

Art

Zones Of Sacrifice: Drifting Through London With Laura Oldfield Ford

With her latest exhibition Alpha/Isis/Eden open at the nearby Showroom, artist Laura Oldfield Ford takes Craft/Work for a dérive through the environs of Lisson Grove
Books

‘We Have To Invent The Future’: An Unseen Interview With Mark Fisher

Tim Burrows sat down with Mark Fisher and the poet Sam Berkson in 2012, to talk celebrity culture, transport, the uses of boredom and the future of public space
Books

Mark Fisher On Kubrick, Tarkovsky & Nolan: An Extract From The Weird And The Eerie

Read an extract from Mark Fisher's new book The Weird And The Eerie, where he gets to grips with 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Stalker, Solaris and Interstellar
Books

Wrote Through Ghosts To Get Here: Ghosts Of My Life & Cultural Paralysis

Exploring - and taking as a yardstick - Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, Paul Wolinski considers the apparent paralysis of contemporary culture and the slow cancellation of the future through the lens of the success and failures of advances in electronic music production
A Quietus Interview

Deviant Logic Unfolding: English Heretic Interviewed

English Heretic blends fact and fiction to explore a world of troubled souls, hidden landscapes and secret histories. With his recent album "Anti-Heroes" a firm fixture in the Quietus' current listening, we dispatched Russell Cuzner to meet him in the field and report back on horror flicks, paranoia, and the occult in J.G. Ballard's writing
Books

An Extract From Mark Fisher’s Ghosts Of My Life

We're very pleased to have an early extract from Mark Fisher's new title for Zero Books published later in the year...
Black Sky Thinking

Is 2013 The Year for Militant Feminism in Music?

Feminism has been mainly absent in popular music for the last decade, says Steph Kretowicz, until now...
Books

The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson Review & Exclusive Extract

A satisfying surfeit of intelligent observation, warm, funny and provocative writing, and lack of prurience in this new Zer0 Books tome. 'Shamone' says Jonny Mugwump, our many teeted lizard overlord

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