Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds is the author of eight books about pop culture, including Retromania (Faber, 2011), the post-punk chronicle Rip It Up and Start Again (Faber, 2005), the rave history Energy Flash (Pan Macmillan, 2008), and the glam study Shock and Awe (Faber, 2016). Born in London, currently based in LA, he contributes to The Guardian, Pitchfork, and The Wire, and operates a bunch of blogs centered around Blissblog. He wrote the foreword to Repeater Books’ 2018 anthology k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016).
All essays by Simon Reynolds
24 Hour Theory People: Part 3
‘Fruitful misunderstandings’ strikes me as a good way to think about the blogosphere — and, actually, as a good way of describing what interesting criticism does, in so far as you never really ‘understand’ a work you’re responding to in any transparent, straightforward sense.
24 Hour Theory People: Part 2
For me, the easiest way to demonstrate the uniqueness of the blog medium is to think about why the k-punk book instantly and overwhelmingly prompts that question of its migration across media, a question which would not even arise for an anthology of newspaper or journal articles.
24 Hour Theory People: Mark Fisher and the blogosphere
There’s been a lot written already about the work of the late English writer, blogger and cultural theorist Mark Fisher, who died in 2017. Last year, a substantial anthology of Mark’s blog writing — together with interviews, reviews, and an unfinished manuscript fragment — was published as k-punk (Repeater Books), which was also the name of his highly influential blog.