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 He wrote the foreword to Repeater Books’ 2018 anthology k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016)__.

Works 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 transp...
5 Mar. 2020
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...
27 Feb. 2020
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 unfini...
20 Feb. 2020

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Works By Simon Reynolds

24 Hour Theory People: Part 3

24 Hour Theory People: Part 2

24 Hour Theory People: Mark Fisher and the blogosphere