@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.
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...
So glad you like the essay! Been a pleasure writing for MTC.
25.07.2025 08:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My piece on the dynamics of contemporary boredom for the excellent @mid-theory.bsky.social:
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this essay is one of my absolute favorites we published this summer’ 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. “boredom returns as communal rhythm”
mid-theory.com/2025/07/24/s...
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Hanging out with the angels 🪽
06.07.2025 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Listen again: Camera Obscura / 25th June 2025
#Electronica #CinematicAtmospheres #Alternative #HipHop #Drone
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These are very good 🎥🎬
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My ballot for the best films of the 21st century NYT poll 🎥🎬
23.06.2025 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New poem 'Plot 44a' published in The Marrow. www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-four/p... ✒️
16.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lowell, from Lord Weary's Castle 🏰
02.06.2025 07:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
London haul 📚📚
25.05.2025 13:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Delighted to have this little poem selected by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin for the new issue of Cyphers. 🦠👨💻
15.05.2025 18:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This month's #Mondettes picked by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social
⚡️Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Barbara made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
**Plus details on some FREEEE writing events**
mondettes.substack.com/p/april-2025
'My heart will only, leaping, kiss / June's woven scarf that strangled me.' —Richard Eberhart, 'The Scarf of June'
15.03.2025 17:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Early birthday present 🎁
10.03.2025 18:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN
01.03.2025 19:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Saturday night with friends.
01.03.2025 18:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1986 short film of Harun Farocki and Vilém Flusser analysing the front page of a German tabloid [BILD].
vimeo.com/490235099
The sea today. #polaroid
05.02.2025 17:19 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exciting piece of Duras-iana from my research: this issue of L'Avant-Scène that prints side-by-side an outline of the images in India Song & Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert with their shared audio track in between:
04.02.2025 14:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'not simply a bad example of the genre, but a film that is ontologically dispiriting'. Some thoughts on Pablo Larraín's 'Maria': oubliette-mag.medium.com/a-problem-li...
04.02.2025 12:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pingu and a big ice whale.
'Werckmeister Harmonies', Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000.
29.01.2025 19:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'The Wild One', László Benedek, 1953.
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Nick Laird 'American Poem'.
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It’s not every day that a TLS review tells me I have “the playful energy and talent of Lydia Davis or Diane Williams, Eley Williams or Nicola Barker”, and I’m not sure it’s true, but I’d like to shift a few of these dogs: www.cbeditions.com/boyle4.html
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A woman in heart glasses reading Kant (an image taken from Superman 3)
Worth sitting through Superman 3 just for this
12.01.2025 13:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gif from 1976 film Network with William Holden saying: he's saying life is bullshit and it is. What are you screaming about?
Reading critiques of Adorno
04.01.2025 15:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub
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