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Daniel Fraser

@harmlessfires.bsky.social

Writer and critic. Work in Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, Mute, Aeon, Radical Philosophy, London Magazine +. Tutor & PhD Scholar at UCC. Mostly writing about Marx, Benjamin, Celan, Duras.

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Listen again: Camera Obscura / 10th December 2025

Tunes ; Joy Orbison/Julio Bushmore/Ramadanman/Digital Mystikz/
Isolee/Pepe Bradock and more...

www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/came...

11.12.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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7-8pm: Camera Obscura

With Juno Cheetal (Flowers At Night). A special dance mix of Garage/Breakbeat/Jungle and House to light up the dark corners of December.

flowersatnight.bandcamp.com/music
#CinematicAtmospheres #Alternative #Electronic #Dance #Drone

10.12.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (2009) cover. A circle inscribed in several colours, ringed like a cross section of a tree.

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (2009) cover. A circle inscribed in several colours, ringed like a cross section of a tree.

'Post-dubstep, garage, UK bass, whatever you wanted to call it, underground dance music never sounded more addictive.'

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (2009) is No 1 in tQ's 25 Best Dancefloor Bangers of the 21st Century So Far

buff.ly/b3K5UYd

30.11.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Delighted to have a little poem in this brilliant new issue of Dust. ๐ŸŒŸ

23.11.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Delighted to have a little poem in this brilliant new issue of Dust. ๐ŸŒŸ

23.11.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

My piece on the dynamics of contemporary boredom for the excellent @mid-theory.bsky.social:

25.07.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cave Dwellers by Daniel Fraser Nights in that housesafety was a lost art, somethingfor play-pretend.Strange carnivores, drunks and crockeryroared downstairs.Finding his grandmotherโ€™s bedthey sat together, cross-legged,in prehistory...

I've a new poem published today by Anthropocene Poetry: www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/cave-dw... ๐Ÿฆ–

02.11.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cave Dwellers by Daniel Fraser Nights in that housesafety was a lost art, somethingfor play-pretend.Strange carnivores, drunks and crockeryroared downstairs.Finding his grandmotherโ€™s bedthey sat together, cross-legged,in prehistory...

I've a new poem published today by Anthropocene Poetry: www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/cave-dw... ๐Ÿฆ–

02.11.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On Andrea Arnoldโ€™s latest film, by @harmlessfires.bsky.social

12.09.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On Andrea Arnoldโ€™s latest film, by @harmlessfires.bsky.social

12.09.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Story Bored What happens if we are never bored? Boredom is a thoroughly modern feeling; or rather, one etymologically contiguous with modernity. The noun did not enter the language until the middle of the nineโ€ฆ

For MTC, Daniel Fraser thinks about boredom's potential both narratologically and politically.

"Boredom is a universal motor and product of social being in capitalism, yet its formal make-up contains a (negatively felt) kernel of the future."

mid-theory.com/2025/07/24/s...

24.07.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So glad you like the essay! Been a pleasure writing for MTC.

25.07.2025 08:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My piece on the dynamics of contemporary boredom for the excellent @mid-theory.bsky.social:

25.07.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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this essay is one of my absolute favorites we published this summerโ€™ come for the white lotus recap, stay for the walter benjamin reference, leave with historical materialist defense of staying in board and feeling time. after all. โ€œboredom returns as communal rhythmโ€
mid-theory.com/2025/07/24/s...

24.07.2025 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Issue 15 Extremely abbreviated reviews

Mentions from @therealbradbabs.bsky.social, @malignfiesta.bsky.social, @harmlessfires.bsky.social, @zoeguttenplan.bsky.social, @differance.bsky.social, @erinlangner.bsky.social, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @aprzhu.bsky.social, and more:

www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

09.07.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hanging out with the angels ๐Ÿชฝ

06.07.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Listen again: Camera Obscura / 25th June 2025

#Electronica #CinematicAtmospheres #Alternative #HipHop #Drone

www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/came...

26.06.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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These are very good ๐ŸŽฅ๐ŸŽฌ

26.06.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Issue 15 Extremely abbreviated reviews

Mentions from @therealbradbabs.bsky.social, @return2sanders.bsky.social, @malignfiesta.bsky.social, @harmlessfires.bsky.social, @zoeguttenplan.bsky.social, @differance.bsky.social, @erinlangner.bsky.social, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @devintoshea.bsky.social, and @aprzhu.bsky.social.

24.06.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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My ballot for the best films of the 21st century NYT poll ๐ŸŽฅ๐ŸŽฌ

23.06.2025 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Plot 44a โ€” The Marrow International Poetry by Daniel Fraser

New poem 'Plot 44a' published in The Marrow. www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-four/p... โœ’๏ธ๐Ÿช

16.06.2025 19:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lowell, from Lord Weary's Castle ๐Ÿฐ

02.06.2025 07:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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London haul ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“š

25.05.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Delighted to have this little poem selected by Eilรฉan Nรญ Chuilleanรกin for the new issue of Cyphers. ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

15.05.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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April 2025 Ten stories picked by Barbara Diggs

This month's #Mondettes picked by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social

โšก๏ธTen wonderful flash fictions
๐Ÿ”Ten splashes of analysis as to why Barbara made these brilliant picks
๐ŸชดThree fantastic prompts to get you writing

**Plus details on some FREEEE writing events**

mondettes.substack.com/p/april-2025

15.04.2025 09:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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'My heart will only, leaping, kiss / June's woven scarf that strangled me.' โ€”Richard Eberhart, 'The Scarf of June'

15.03.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Early birthday present ๐ŸŽ

10.03.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN

01.03.2025 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Saturday night with friends.

01.03.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Schlagworte โ€“ Schlagbilder (Catch Phrases โ€“ Catch Images) ยฉ Harun Farocki all rights reserved. In this videowork, Harun Farocki and Vilรฉm Flusser discuss the design and appeal of the title page of the Germanโ€ฆ

1986 short film of Harun Farocki and Vilรฉm Flusser analysing the front page of a German tabloid [BILD].

vimeo.com/490235099

24.02.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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