Matt Colquhoun's Blog

Diuen que el narcisisme és un dels grans mals del nostre temps, especialment alimentat per les xarxes socials. Però, i si el narcisisme fos una eina per adquirir una superconsciència del Jo i, per extensió, de la participació del capital en la construcció d’aquest Jo i la seva representació pública? Matt Colquhoun proposa una lectura disruptiva del […]

A new Italian edition of Narcissus in Bloom has been translated by Paolo Berti and published by Nero Editions. It is out now and you can buy it here. It is coming hot on the heels of the Spanish translation by Matheus Calderón, published by Mutatis Mutandis. The original English edition is still available from […]

Such is annual tradition, idiots on Twitter are posthumously laying into Mark Fisher again because of “Exiting the Vampire Castle” — a tradition that has garnered even more ferocity following Russell Brand’s bizarre trajectory over the last few years. Brand has recently embraced God, it appears, and this is apparently another perfect excuse for people […]

The question is, what happened? Why would Goddard leave his second successful imprint? Was there some dispute with the ownership? At the end of the day, wee can only speculate, but we believe we have an idea. One word: Palestine. An important piece from Ludd on the apparent demise of Repeater Books… Read here.

On October 16th 2024, I’ll be giving a talk in Cardiff (details TBA) on my most recent book, Narcissus in Bloom. That same day will see the opening of an exhibition, hosted by Ffotogallery as part of this year’s Ffoto Cymru festival, to which you can submit your own self-portraits! This call for submissions is open […]

Matt Colquhoun, escritor y fotógrafo originario de Hull, Reino Unido, ha sido una figura clave en la recuperación y difusión de las ideas de su maestro en Goldsmiths, el filósofo británico Mark Fisher. En 2020, Colquhoun publicó Egreso: sobre comunidad, duelo y Mark Fisher, un libro en el que explora la experiencia de duelo comunitario y […]

The Gallagher brothers are getting the band back together next year… Time is and remains a flat circle for British rock’n’roll. What we’ve got in the 21st century is a confusion of the contemporary with the modern, in fact the contemporary cannot deliver the modern; there’s a kind of depthless contemporary. I think this is something […]

It has been the self-elected task of writers and artists for centuries to document the present and attempt to understand the particular character of their own epoch. The coincident emergence of photography and modernism gave new precedence to the role of vernacular culture in our sense of presentness, but the sheer proliferation of photographic images […]

I’ll be DJing at the afterparty for Pipelines next week, Newcastle University’s MFA Fine Art degree show. The exhibition opens at 6pm on 16th August in the Hatton Gallery on the Newcastle University campus. Information here: The Newcastle University MFA Degree Show brings together the work of emerging artists at both the midpoint and the […]

I recently had a conversation with Eddie Otchere to celebrate the publication of his new career-spanning photobook Spirit Behind the Lens: The Making of a Hip-Hop Photographer. It was an honour to speak to Eddie (James T Kirk), whose book Junglist, co-authored with Andrew Green (Two Fingas), I love and which was reissued by Repeater […]