/ Alex Mazey /
Alex Mazey won The Roy Fisher Prize from Keele University in 2018 and was the recipient of a Creative Future Writers’ Award the following year. He is a contributing researcher for the international academic journal Baudrillard Now and author of both Living in Disneyland and Sad Boy Aesthetics. His debut poetry collection, Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition, is available from the award-winning Bad Betty Press. His writing weaves incisive wit with fluid philosophical enquiry, offering a piercing, uniquely thought-provoking lens through which to explore the ubiquity of absurdities inherent to postmodern consumerist culture.
Main interests: aesthetics, hyperrealism, postmodernism, semiotics, Baudrillard
“Rather than attempt to recover lost meaning, today’s semiotics emboldens the conditions it helped to create, embracing the performative and ironic nature of signs with a sense of cynical amusement.” - Sardonicism in Semiotics
Aug 4, 2025
/ Alex Mazey - Should I Follow Grimes on X (Formally Known as Twitter)? /
Should I Follow Grimes on X (Formally Known as Twitter)?
‘The primary uniting force in this country is anime. It’s the only media through line that I can reliably observe regardless of political alignment.’ — Grimes on X(formally known as
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Jan 3, 2025
/ Alex Mazey - Sardonicism in Semiotics /
Sardonicism in Semiotics
When I look down into the washing up bowl at night, stepping into a familiar site of dissociation and dirty dishes, I am reminded plainly that Scrub Daddy’s smile exists not as a replacement for my own
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