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Un-Popping the Bubbles of Pop: A Brief History of Anti-Hauntology

In the aftermath of SOPHIE’s death last week, Matt Bluemink has written a really nice essay for Blue Labyrinths entitled “Anti-Hauntology: Mark Fisher, SOPHIE, and the Future of Music”. It’s a great essay, emphasising why SOPHIE’s death hit so many so hard. Simply put, she had become the face of the future of music — […]

The Post-Capitalist Realism Generation: Notes on Students, BreadTube and Digital Psychedelia

I really enjoyed this video from Acid Left, broadly on Mark’s critique of his students in the late 2000s. It made me think of something. But that something probably requires some background… I’ve seen a few people pull on the frayed thread Mark dangles in Capitalist Realism about his students. (See the first four minutes […]

National-Identity Politics: On the Contradictions of New New Labour

If you want to understand where the UK is at right now, look no further that the Labour Party presentation leaked today, which details a planned turn towards flag-waving patriotism in order to shift the party’s “body language” and win back voters lost to the Conservatives and Brexit Party. So much has been written on […]

Blogger’s Digest #5 (01/02/2021)

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“Why we started a club night for our teacher, Mark Fisher”: For k-punk in Huck Magazine

Ahead of tonight’s event at the ICA, my curatorial partner-in-chaos Natasha Eves, in collaboration with our friends Archie Smith and Kitty McKay of INCURSIONS, have written a beautiful essay for Huck Magazine about why these nights are so important to us. Mark Fisher taught us as undergraduates. In our second year, we spent weeks dedicated […]

Hype(rstition) and Unbelief: On GameStop and Coronavirus

In an old post on the Hyperstition blog, Anna Greenpan writes: Hyperstition aims to flatten the transcendence of superstition. Nowhere is this immanence more obvious than in the role hype plays in the market. Here hype acts concretely as an ‘element of effective culture that makes itself real’, where reality is precisely measured in $. […]

Desire with Dr Isabel Millar

Following conversations with Will Stronge, Dan Taylor and Hari Kunzru, we have one more conversation to close out what has been a really fascinating series. This Wednesday, I’ll be joined by Dr Isabel Millar to talk about desire. This is a topic that has come up on a few occasions so far already, but it […]

Consciousness Raising with Hari Kunzru

Thanks to everyone who has tuned into the conversations with Will Stronge and Dan Taylor so far. Our next event will be held on Monday evening, again at 7PM GMT, and I’ll be joined by Hari Kunzru, author of numerous novels — most recently Red Pill, which will be the focus of our discussion. For […]

Monday night: Consciousness Raising with Hari Kunzru

Thanks to everyone who has tuned into the conversations with Will Stronge and Dan Taylor so far. Our next event will be held on Monday evening, again at 7PM GMT, and I’ll be joined by Hari Kunzru, author of numerous novels — most recently Red Pill, which will be the focus of our discussion. For […]

Test Dept: Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture 2021

The Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths has just announced the fourth annual Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture. Taking place online, on Friday 29th January 2021, this year’s event features Test Dept in collaboration / conversation with Alexei Monroe and Peter Webb, building on an article Mark wrote about the band back in 2015 for Frieze. […]