Name: Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
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Author: Mark Fisher
ISBN: 9781913462482

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Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mark Fisher

Illustrated by

Matt Colquhoun

Publisher

Repeater

Language

English

Pages

264

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781913462482

Synopsis "Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures"

A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016. Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element -- the classroom -- outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished. Beginning with that most fundamental of questions -- "Do we really want what we say we want?" -- Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so. For Fisher, this process of consciousness raising was always, fundamentally, psychedelic -- just not in the way that we might think...

Mark Fisher

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Mark Fisher (1968-2017) became known as a cultural critic thanks to K-Punk, a pioneering blog in the early years of the internet where he wrote extensive articles on music, contemporary philosophy, political analysis, science fiction, and cinema. Later, he began publishing in prestigious magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, The Wire, or frieze. He is the author of the books Capitalist Realism, published in Spanish by Caja Negra, and Ghosts of my Life, a selection of essays on impossible futures, depression, and the cultural perception of memory.

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