K-punk Quotes

“No one is bored, everything is boring”
― Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

“Both Bennett and Kafka understand that, no matter how absurd their rituals, pronunciations, clothes might appear to be, the ruling class are unembarrassable; that is not because there is a special code which only they understand — there is no code, precisely — but that whatever they do is alright, because it is THEM doing it. Conversely, if you are not of the “in-crowd”, nothing you can do could EVER be right; you are a priori guilty.”
― Mark Fisher, k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

“Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination.”
― Mark Fisher, k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

“traditional forms of publishing. In the early days of k-punk this was something he particularly came to associate with blogging: All that is lacking is the will”
― Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

“popular culture and theory”. k-punk’s belief in the importance of outsider forms of discourse never wavered. There is a consistent belief in the operative effectiveness of fugitive discourses which have been legitimated by neither the official channels of the establishment (via academia or mainstream media outlets)”
― Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

“fruitful relationships with Burial”
― Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

“So, please, no consumerist homilies about the fact that “it is always possible to find good records, no matter what the year”. Yes, of course it is, but as soon as pop is reduced to good records it really is all over. When pop can no longer muster a nihilation of the World, a nihilation of the Possible, then it will only be the ghosts that are worthy of our time.”
― Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

“The Vampires’ Castle feeds on the energy and anxieties and vulnerabilities of young students, but most of all it lives by converting the suffering of particular groups — the more “marginal” the better — into academic capital. The most lauded figures in the Vampires’ Castle are those who have spotted a new market in suffering — those who can find a group more oppressed and subjugated than any previously exploited will find themselves promoted through the ranks very quickly.”
― Mark Fisher, k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher