Morgan Wicks.

For my sins, I have recently graduated from Durham University with a BA in Music and am now desperately trying to become a real taxpaying citizen (see – ‘Despatches from The Welfare Office’).

Lest I am offered a job at The Quietus within the next six months, I will likely return to university to obtain an MA in Something or Other. In the meantime, this space should act as a mental landfill for the tangential, referential, and inconsequential.

The central interest I wish to explore here lies in the role of power, especially as it manifests itself in culture and technology. Alongside this, I occasionally engage in pseudonymised ide-odysseys, but the less I write about these the better.

Away from this old ball-and-chain, I enjoy hitchhiking, playing pool, and leaning on windowsills.

Aidan Matthews.

Between soaking up loan money from Student Finance England and bleeding it back out into local café establishments and a weekly baked goods order, I read Philosophy and Politics at Durham University – the spiritual birthplace of this publication.

I hope to remain part of the UK academic world until either its, or my own, eventual demise by the hand of Reform UK and its associates. During this strange time in between I aim to use this space to write and publicise some of my own work – taken from notes, or written bespoke for this publication.

While my main interest is the philosophy of political economy, I make frequent and essential excursions into ontological, epistemological and theological questions. And where my work at university has a necessary focus on precision, clarity and rigour, I enjoy expressing myself through embellished work, theory-fiction and, occasionally, bad poetry.

Outside of this, I enjoy listening to and making music, pencil drawing, and wiping down windowsills. 

“As I recall you did the lump sum of the work on the website.”

— Morgan Wicks.