Although I tend to let the Lacanian jargon wash over me.
that leaves the pooterish bile, then: awesome for you.
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
You seem to be following me around.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean ok, he could be well be a scintillating visionairy when it comes to fucking docotr who or whatever but since this is on ilm i refer to
- his godforsaken attempts to pluck stuff out of the pop charts for his dismal services (rihanna is an robot, fnarrr)
- hauntology etc, truly the most specious and intellectually bankrupt rearranging of a record collection i've ever witnessed
― r|t|c, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
duuuuuuuuuuuud.
-- r|t|c, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:58 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^^^ this
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
don't even know who you are
xposts
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean ok, he could be well be a scintillating visionairy when it comes to fucking docotr who
lolololololol 8080
should probly mention that i havent read anything of his for a year, haha
but stop me if i'm wrong.
― r|t|c, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
rtc otm, pseudo-intellectual bullshit of the first order.
― Neil S, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you talking about old-ILX here lol
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
He's had some interesting posts on Lynch. He was interesting on Joy Division. Not 100% sure about "hauntology", but since I haven't actually heard that Ghostbox stuff, benefit of the doubt. Not sure why the pseudo in front of the intellectual, why do you think he's a pseud (a term I find more used by anti-intellectuals than anyone else)
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
And all you guys who say dud, I'd be interested to know whether you read blogs (well obviously since you're conversant with K Punk) and if so what blogs you actually like?
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Ban Zelda Zonk
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, ban me. Bye!
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
haha oh yeah you know what his best, most awkwardest one was - the oedIpod!!!! classic
― r|t|c, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, didn't nick southall co-opt that one for a bit as well
― r|t|c, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't read him, or any other bloggers, but bccasionally I get linked to stuff he's said by people who know me and think I might be interested in specific ideas, and generally they're right.
x-post - I don't think so!
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i used to read blogs. he is a classic pseud in that his ideas are all modifications of whatever hackademic gods he's worshipping to the thing in hand, and as with the bataille-on-paris thing on the reynolds thread it's ultimately a boring parlour game.
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
ok no you just quoted him
― r|t|c, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I did? When?
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I really get into about one out of every five or ten posts, skim over a few here and there, and usually notice my eyes glazing over during most of the 'critical' talk over philosophers of the 20th century.
I had never heard the term "pseud" until I started posting on ilx.
― mh, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Were you brought up by wolves or something?
― Tom D., Friday, 29 June 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Huddled in the safety of the pseduo silk kimono.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh balls. Here's the rest.
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono wearing bracelets of smoke Naked of understanding Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears Safe in my own words, learning from my own words Cruel joke, cruel joke
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono a morning mare rides In the starless shutters of my eyes The spirit of a misplaced childhood is rising to speak his mind To this orphan of heartbreak, disillusioned and scarred A refugee, refugee
No, seriously, is "pseud" some british thing?
― mh, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Not sure why the pseudo in front of the intellectual, why do you think he's a pseud (a term I find more used by anti-intellectuals than anyone else)
I have no problem with intellectuals, just with peeople who want to sound like intellectuals by smothering their analysis of Aqua or the like with critical theory speak. Being intellectual doesn't mean being unintelligible.
― Neil S, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"Pseud" as in pseudo-Freud? That's hilarious. Of course he's not a pseudo-intellectual (incidentally, the last time I heard that slur it was used by Hannity against Hitchens - nuff said).
Zelda Zonk, just so you know, there are a lot of morons round here. But if you accept the stormy climate, it's all good.
― Jeb, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
'pseud' might be but 'pseudo-intellectual' seems like a fairly standard construction.
Of course he's not a pseudo-intellectual
he's pretty much the definish.
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah. k-punk strikes me as kind of an asshole (cf. Dissensus right before he quit) and possibly batshit insane to boot, but I like him anyway. I read his blog pretty regularly until it began to seem. ... predictable; I still find it really engaging, tho intermittently. Liked his writing on the Fall.
he is a classic pseud in that his ideas are all modifications of whatever hackademic gods he's worshipping to the thing in hand, and as with the bataille-on-paris thing on the reynolds thread it's ultimately a boring parlour game.
Hey, he's just DEEP INTO BATAILLE-LAND and is never coming out. I can dig it, sort of.
― xero, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
incidentally, the last time I heard that slur it was used by Hannity against Hitchens - nuff said
So what you're saying is that because someone called Hitchens a pseudo-intellectual, the term is automatically an off-limits slur?
― Neil S, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/soulseeking/no-music-day.htm
tsk i do feel a bit tainted with zelda's "anti-intellectual" jibe now. really i have no problem with his going pseudo-ott over stuff, the breadth of his discourse, his pretension if that's what you want to call it; save for the fact that i find his actual ideas just really quite barren and predictable
plus he's fostered this whole claque of similar bloggers that make it into even more of a parlour game shut-in
― r|t|c, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I never thought of that, maybe it is
― Tom D., Friday, 29 June 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
really i have no problem with his going pseudo-ott over stuff, the breadth of his discourse, his pretension if that's what you want to call it
it's the way he uses it as a cloak to disguise the dearth of ideas which gets me - i am only ever able to tell when he starts writing about stuff that i know about though
― lex pretend, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
k-punk uses 'anti-intellectual' a lot and it's lol-y mainly because his scope of what constitutes the, uh, 'realm of the intellectual', is so narrow. i have never, ever got the sense that he likes r'n'b or girls aloud or any of the other new music he writes about. i can believe he likes the smiths though.
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I like his big attempt at consistency and systemisation. In the archives there is some brilliant writing on glam, postpunk, politics etc.
This hauntology stuff is like the systemisation overreaching itself and making do with the boring, comfortable Ghostbox aesthetic because it's so convenient for musing over. The results of these musings are completely palty too, it's so repetitive and never gets anywhere close to what it says it's doing.
― Alex xy, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
The thing is, I can see he might be an intellectual you disagree with, or find his critical tools offputting, but I think it's plainly absurd to say he's a pseudo-intellectual, a pretend intellectual. He plainly knows his stuff and thinks about stuff and talks about it within an intellectual framework. Yeah, talking about popular culture within a Marxist/Lacanian/Baudrillardian framework is not going to be everyone's cup of tea, I'm not sure it's even my cup of tea. But it's not a priori pseudo-intellectual. As for dearth of ideas, come on.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh aye, I did quote him there, but that was on teaching rather than on philosophy, per se.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jeb, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think k-punk is a pseud(o-intellectual) in the sense of not actually having read or thought about this stuff at length and in depth; it's just that he seems to be endlessly staking out and elaborating a position that is, among its other shortcomings, no longer at all fashionable.
― xero, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
(but was about ten years ago, woe)
― xero, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i like k punk but spizzazz was more thought provoking.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really. That Hannity used it against Hitchens just proves that it's all too often used as a random slur against "real" intellectuals (I don't think many would argue that Hitchens isn't one - whether you like him or not). I'm all for its being used, but there's a time and place for it.
Fair enough, I'd agree that Hitchens may be a lot of things, but a pseud he is not. I'd stick by my assertion about k-punk above, though.
― Neil S, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
hitchens is not a pseud exactly, but neither is he an intellectual; he's a saloon bar ranter and formerly entertaining journalist.
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, if one definition of pseudo-intellectual is staking out positions that are no longer fashionable, I'll give it to you!
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
my problem with reading much k-punk is that i have spent three years studying analytic philosophy and whilst i sort of decides that stuff wasn't "right" it has left me with a liking for clear argumentation. with k-punk it often seems to me he trips himself up over writing what essentially seem to be rather simple points. also i dunno how continental philosophy really works but some of the time he seems to merely use his chosen philosophers as appeals to authority, he could argue the point probably in more depth and more interestingly if he didn't just pull out so and so philosopher to "prove" whatever is the case. i don't read him that often tbh but his ideas seem kind of apocalyptic in a fashion i rather like but they lack urgency. it all seems rather remote compared to the fever of the likes of carmody and carlin but i guess they are doing something else altogether.
― acrobat, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd agree with this
also, this is as good a place as any to admit that while i don't reak kpunk much anymore, i'm well addicted to hyperstiti0n (highly highly toxic)
― gff, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost : It's not MY def. of pseudo-i -- that's just why I think it's easy to call him that. Also, acrobat OTM re authority & apocalypticism.
― xero, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i think 'pseud' usually *does* mean having done all the proper reading; in a way my problem with his corner of the blogosphere (and much of the academic world it's coming out of) is it's so relentlessly textual: everything is about connecting something some guy (badiou, zizek, baudrillard, whoever) said to certain cultural items other people have picked up on (grime, r'n'b, electropop). two fashions are being followed: blog music and philosophy. it's pseudy because it's a closed loop, nothing is produced, nothing is discovered; it's not specific ideas i disagree with necessarily, more the process itself. of course it's going to result in consistency and systemisation because the process is hermetic and won't allow any new or disruptive inputs: it all has to fit together. hence the overuse of the word 'precisely' (borrowed from zizek).
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
but some of the time he seems to merely use his chosen philosophers as appeals to authority, he could argue the point probably in more depth and more interestingly if he didn't just pull out so and so philosopher to "prove" whatever is the case.
A valid criticism I think, and kind of what I meant upthread when I said I let the Lacanian stuff wash over me. I think he does have some interesting things to say about a lot of stuff I'm interested in as well (Highsmith, Lynch, post-punk etc), but there's no need to appeal to Lacan or whoever to make the point. I guess I too find about 1 in 5 of his posts interesting (pretty good odds for a blog).
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
K-Punk hits:
Glam The Fall Junior Boys Japan
― Alex xy, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
it's pseudy because it's a closed loop ... the process is hermetic OK, yeah, that's exactly it. Sometimes that kinda works for me, sometimes not. ...I can just about imagine a k-punk post on The Hermetic. Maybe there has been one.
― xero, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Neoliberal capitalism still positions itself that way tbh
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 1 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
His ideas of cyberspace-time and the dominant mood of modern capitalism being anxiety, not boredom as in the past, are beyond vital. I’m happy there is still such interest in his work.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 1 February 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
excellent long review of the collected works:https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2019/02/28/long-read-review-k-punk-the-collected-and-unpublished-writings-of-mark-fisher-2004-2016-by-mark-fisher-edited-by-darren-ambrose-with-simon-reynolds/
― Neil S, Friday, 1 March 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
in my (not so long) review i also forgot to say "why doesn't this 800-page book have a fkn index?" even tho it is literally the book's biggest and most obvious failing
― mark s, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
While some of the distinctive qualities of the blog are indeed absent, the book compensates for this by providing a clearer sense of continuity than is available from posts accessed individually via a web browser.
Show your workings...it doesn't sound like the collection is giving a lot more than what Capitalist Realism does.
Reading through the review I have a feeling of not wanting to read anymore around that brand of anglo anti-middlebrow culture like Joy Division/The Fall/Ballard/Cronenberg. It never reckons with the limitations that kind of escapism provided and the reviewer doesn't address how that stuff totally bypasses the younger left ppl he connected with.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
all that stuff maybe not but KP also raves abt moloko!
i want fizzles to explain why the three-part fall essay is bad not good
― mark s, Friday, 1 March 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
i'm not sure i'd say it was bad not good. i remember reading it and thinking it was great that someone was going in deep on The Fall in ways that I also found interesting. There were things that I disagreed with iirc, but that may just have been hair-splitting. I'll give it a re-read and report back.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-necessity-of-being-judgmental-on-k-punk-the-collected-and-unpublished-writings-of-mark-fisher/
― j., Saturday, 9 March 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
"The lack of index is frustrating"
k-korrekt as we used to say
also sorry, MF decided he liked coldplay and you have to also: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/001181.html
― mark s, Sunday, 10 March 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
Reading Jenny Turner's piece last night and it was hard agree on his dismissal of Sebald.
I think this could've been reviewed alongside A Hidden Landscape.
I've also been reading around what Nina Power is up to these days and there is an added bit of sadness. The connections with Nick Land begin to get at the progressive and reactionary nature of this group and it's projects.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 May 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link
I think this could've been reviewed alongside A Hidden Landscape
SO DO I
― mark s, Thursday, 2 May 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
I must not be looking right, but can't find the piece and playlist (?) on the site, even though Turner tweeted it should be there by now?
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 2 May 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aoCiRc4psD2TV0KM1Y6EN
― ogmor, Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
Thanks Ogmor
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
dare I ask for an explanation of wtf is going on with Nina Power?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
Sebald is best read as migrant literature, with all the mythologizing – both positive and negative – of host cultures that experience of estrangement entails. His take on Suffolk is bound to be different from Fisher's, and to speak of 'mittelbrow' strikes me as an unnecessary dig at Sebald's German roots. Anyhow, I have nothing but respect for Fisher, I'm just not sold on the Sebald-as-reactionary trope – there are plenty of other factors to consider, including the generational one.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
As for Nina Power:
https://write.as/7v8fbjq9ekoaxl3z
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
That letter is kind of barmy. Here's NP's response https://ninapower.net/2019/03/14/248/
― Stevie T, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
Oh right, so I guess that's cleared everything up.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
Hmmm, can't say I'm reassured by her using the "trans activists" dogwhistle or unapologetically attending a Women's Place meeting.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
"Sebald is best read as migrant literature, with all the mythologizing – both positive and negative – of host cultures that experience of estrangement entails. His take on Suffolk is bound to be different from Fisher's, and to speak of 'mittelbrow' strikes me as an unnecessary dig at Sebald's German roots"
Agree the pun is weak but I think he has point on Sebald's lack of attention.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 May 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
a weird argument i remember with MF -- on a vanished iteration of the k-punk blog in maybe 2005-ish, in the comments, and so i think doubly long-lost to web-rot -- was cheerfully throwing at him the criticism that he was terrible at dialectics. i forget even why -- it was probably a pop-cultural discussion, i never engaged him abt politics
anyway he came back (disarmingly in the sense that i had no comeback, and memorably in the sense that i knew there and then that this was a big thing to say, and never forgot it): "i'm glad i'm not -- dialectical thinking is a bad thing!"
well, it turns out -- i didn't find this out for years -- that nick land loathed dialectics, and he was still involved with CCRU at that time (and i don't think land had made his break for the grimmer neo-reactionary shores yet) (accelrationism was also a few years off). but the funny thing is -- as i realised when i was reading this book to review it, and as jenny t has much more space to say nore about it, he *is* a dialectical thinker, in the sense that he has two contradictory sides to his thought which he uses to work on one another. the gentle attention to small intimate subtleties and the world-bestriding cyber-amplified world of implacable historical momentum. he spoke both languages -- and they did operate on one another -- but i'm not sure how much he consciously decided to explore this as it was happening, or even (actally) how much he was aware of it as a forked tendency in him. war and scission were modes he chose, i think knowingly submitting to the flawed perceptions that come with them -- and they gave him his reach, but i don't actually think they were the best of him.
― mark s, Thursday, 2 May 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
Is yr review online anywhere mark?
― Stevie T, Friday, 3 May 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
it's in the wire, so i guess yes if yr a subscriber and can access their archive but basically no
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
did zero get up to some more bullshit?
Could all those who continue to confuse @RepeaterBooks with Z*ro please read this note of clarification, and also share as widely as possible pic.twitter.com/7h5aNCYbRI— Alex Niven (@Alex_Niven) June 5, 2018
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
(that tweet is old but was just retweeted by Niven)
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
I work in further education, like k-punk did, and I once printed a quote from one of his blogs and stuck it on all the noticeboards at work, because it described exactly our situation: " lecturers are conscripted into performing endless bureaucratic procedures which and have nothing to do with their ostensible function (to improve teaching and learning) and everything to do with the concealed function of improving the representation of the college through the abstract mechanisms of paperwork and statistics. This has served to create a virtual college, which is prioritised over the real college in every conceivable way."
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/24137
Since Mark Fisher's death in 2017, his acolytes have cemented his legacy in philosophy, literature and music. They've done so through anthology books, public talks and now, with the release of On Vanishing Land, vinyl records. The album comes courtesy of Hyperdub's Kode9, who has launched a spoken-word sub-label called Flatlines. The label's first release is this audiovisual essay, made in 2006 and exhibited in 2013, which Fisher worked on with the philosopher, writer and sound artist Justin Barton. On Vanishing Land is a 40-minute narration of a walk Barton and Fisher took along the Suffolk coast. It also includes snippets from interviews they conducted that introduce themes of long-lost societies and the machinations of capital to the piece's main subject: the idea of the eerie. These voices accompany an ambient score that features contemporary experimental musicians such as Gazelle Twin, Raime, Skjølbrot, Baron Mordant and Ekoplekz. But unless you're familiar with the artists' hallmarks, it won't likely be clear whose music is playing when.
On Vanishing Land is a 40-minute narration of a walk Barton and Fisher took along the Suffolk coast. It also includes snippets from interviews they conducted that introduce themes of long-lost societies and the machinations of capital to the piece's main subject: the idea of the eerie. These voices accompany an ambient score that features contemporary experimental musicians such as Gazelle Twin, Raime, Skjølbrot, Baron Mordant and Ekoplekz. But unless you're familiar with the artists' hallmarks, it won't likely be clear whose music is playing when.
― j., Saturday, 21 September 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
In W.G. Sebald's footsteps? Either way, I'm very curious to hear this, thanks for the link.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 22 September 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
KP deeply disliked sebald, so no (but yes)
unless you're familiar with the artists' hallmarks, it won't likely be clear whose music is playing when
as a way of glossing "it all sounds exactly the same" this made me lol a bit
― mark s, Sunday, 22 September 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
You're right, I hadn't remembered that. From the Wire:
Rob Turner writes of Mark and his hauntological partner-in-crime Justin Barton:
The pair’s wonky tour guide, shifting from nerdy digressions on Brian Eno to enthusiastic riffs on TV horror shows, is a reply to WG Sebald’s celebrated study of the same coastline The Rings of Saturn. In a 2011 essay for Sight & Sound, Fisher described that book as a trudge through Suffolk that entirely failed to look at the place, offering instead “mittel-brow miserabilism, a stock disdain, in which the human settlements are routinely dismissed as shabby”. Here, in apparent solidarity with the humans trapped in this realm, the narrator is gripped by the features of the landscape, reading lost poems of late capitalism in the stacked iron containers of Felixstowe terminal.
I agree that Sebald's Suffolk 'trudge' wasn't about Suffolk or that coast per se, but that wasn't really Sebald's point to begin with. Either way, I'm looking forward to this.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 22 September 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
He is kinda right. Austerlitz > Rings of Saturn in my book. Though I must say, after spending a few days in Great Yarmouth this summer, it was kinda funny reading his description of Lowestoft. But also really harsh.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 22 September 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
Harsh is ok, though.
Just listened to the record. It wasn't off putting - it was rather special to hear Mark's voice in this way - but as a spoken word album, well, it is what it is, and nothing more: you hear it once, enjoy it, but probably will never listen to it again. I hate that this is how it goes, but it is how it goes.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 23 September 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
I've been really enjoying On Vanishing Land and have listened to it repeatedly. It reminded me a bit of Patrick Keiller's films, Robinson in Space particularly.
― neilasimpson, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
RIP Mark Fisher on the anniversary of his death. I taught Capitalist Realism this fall, and was pleasantly surprised how much students connected with Fisher's ability to connect the ongoing crisis of capitalism with depression and anxiety. He saw something.https://t.co/vONLSBLuSA— Jason Read (@Unemployedneg) January 13, 2020
― j., Monday, 13 January 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
I liked him as a lecturer.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:28 (four years ago) link
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/mark-fisher-blogosphere/
― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, 6 March 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
:(
man, really feels like these trajectories have sped right up pic.twitter.com/j2ZV0G2ESf— michael (@Sisyphusa) July 6, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 July 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
nina power is now writing in the telegraph about cancel culture
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
lol, didn't click yr link before posting
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
honestly fisher would have been on her side
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
this isnt a big development, nina has been on youtube with some very dodgy people over the last couple of years, she always has that look on her face where she's just said something a bit naughty,
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
only a finite amount of books you can read in a lifetime, and an infinite amount of tedious and horrible writers!
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
^^^ truth.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
Still working my way through “Capitalist Realism,” so grateful for his provocations. https://t.co/N19DxsR7Dp— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) July 12, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
https://crackmagazine.net/2023/01/kode9-releases-previously-unheard-conversation-with-mark-fisher/
Kode9 has shared a previously unheard recording of a conversation between himself and the late Mark Fisher, 6 years after his passing. The recording is from a conversation between the producer and theorist from 1998.According to a note shared on Kode9’s Instagram, the conversation “was the first of a series of recorded conversations whose aim was to explicate/clarify/transmit the embryonic mythos.”He continued: “Due to the mnemonic fade and/or nonrecovery of other minidiscs, it is unclear whether subsequent recordings existed”.
According to a note shared on Kode9’s Instagram, the conversation “was the first of a series of recorded conversations whose aim was to explicate/clarify/transmit the embryonic mythos.”
He continued: “Due to the mnemonic fade and/or nonrecovery of other minidiscs, it is unclear whether subsequent recordings existed”.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link