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Philosophical Doomcore

By Eugene Thacker 24 January 2012

Objectively pessimistic or just plain grouchy? Schopenhauer’s ethics, which threw out positive conceptions of freedom and the human will, mi...

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Occultural Studies 3.0: Devil's Switchboard

By Eugene Thacker 26 May 2011

Demonology is not simply the study of demons, but of noise's assault on signal - a media theory avant la lettre, writes Eugene Thacker Accord...

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Occultural Studies 2.0: Passionate Divas

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By Eugene Thacker 12 January 2011

Doomed divas, the stars of Italian silent cinema, bring the sacrificial passions of the mystic down to earth, producing new and radical effects - writ...

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Occultural Studies 1.0: Black Metal

By Eugene Thacker 24 August 2010

Increasingly DIY and nihilistic, it's not surprising that contemporary philosophy is drawn to the untilled fields of undead subculture. Recent book, H...

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Agit Disco collects the playlists of its 23 writers to tell the story of how music has politically influenced and inspired them. The book provides a multi-genre survey of political musics, from a wide range of viewpoints, that goes beyond protest songs into the darker hinterlands of musical meaning.

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Anomie/ Bonhomie & Other Writings

By mute 30 November 2011

In this, his long awaited first book, Howard Slater extemporizes around what Walter Benjamin could have meant by the phrase 'affective classes'. Rathe...

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Social tenants hit by rent hikes

by BeTheMedia - various Isles alt media 22 Feb 2012

Author: richard Manchester’s council tenants face an inflation-busting 6.48 per cent rent hike from April, according to plans signed off by Town Hall chiefs last week. Social ten... more