The Memeing of Mark Fisher

The Memeing of Mark Fisher
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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : 9781789049343
ISBN-13 : 1789049342
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis The Memeing of Mark Fisher by : Mike Watson

The Frankfurt School meets Fisher in this critique of capitalism incorporating memes, mental illness and psychedelia into a proposed counterculture. Spring 2020 to 2021 was the year that did not take place. We witnessed a depression, not economically speaking, but in the psychological sense: A clinical depression of and by society itself. This depression was brought about not just by Covid isolation, but by the digital economy, fueled by social media and the meme. In the aftermath, this book revisits the main Frankfurt School theorists, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin and Marcuse, who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, The Memeing of Mark Fisher aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes it argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. Finally, as more people have access to the means for theoretical and cultural broadcasting, it is urged that the online left uses that access to build a real life cultural and political movement.

Capitalist Realism

Capitalist Realism
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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 90
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ISBN-10 : 9781780997346
ISBN-13 : 1780997345
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Capitalist Realism by : Mark Fisher

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.

Can the Left Learn to Meme?

Can the Left Learn to Meme?
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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9781785357244
ISBN-13 : 1785357247
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Can the Left Learn to Meme? by : Mike Watson

Taking in an array of cultural references from the contemporary art world, to cat memes, Stranger Things, the Kardashian-Jenners, Mad Men, Run the Jewels, and video gaming, Can the Left Learn to Meme? argues that there is positivity in millennial-era cultural production. Utilising Adorno’s unswerving yet understated hope in spite of the odds, Mike Watson embraces the abstraction of the new media landscape as millennials refuse to surrender to cynicism, by out-weirding even the world at large. They pose a radical alternative to the right wing approach of Steve Bannon and the conservative psychology of Jordan Peterson. Here, the cultural elitism of the art world is contrasted with the anything-goes approach of millennial culture. The left avant-garde dream of an art-for-all is with us, though you won't find it in museums. It is time the left learned to meme, challenging conventions along the way.

Acid Communism

Acid Communism
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Publisher : Pattern Books
Total Pages : 72
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Synopsis Acid Communism by : Mark Fisher

A short zine collecting an introduction to the concept by Matt Colquhoun that appeared in 'krisis journal for contemporary philosophy Issue 2, 2018: Marx from the Margins' and the unfinished introduction to the unfinished book on Acid Communism that Mark Fisher was working on before his death in 2017. "In this way ‘Acid’ is desire, as corrosive and denaturalising multiplicity, flowing through the multiplicities of communism itself to create alinguistic feedback loops; an ideological accelerator through which the new and previously unknown might be found in the politics we mistakenly think we already know, reinstantiating a politics to come." —Matt Colquhoun

The Memeing of Mark Fisher

The Memeing of Mark Fisher
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : 9798472894753
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Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Memeing of Mark Fisher by : Academic Fraud

The definitive volume on the subject of Capitalist Realism memes. The definitive collection of three admin's screenshots. The staggering work of heartbreaking genius.

Postcapitalist Desire

Postcapitalist Desire
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Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781913462376
ISBN-13 : 1913462374
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Postcapitalist Desire by : Mark Fisher

A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016. Edited 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...

Egress

Egress
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Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781912248889
ISBN-13 : 1912248883
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Egress by : Matt Colquhoun

Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher. Narrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher’s philosophical trajectory, from his days as a PhD student at the University of Warwick to the development of his unfinished book on Acid Communism. Taking the word “egress” as its starting point—a word used by Fisher in his book The Weird and the Eerie to describe an escape from present circumstances as experiences by the characters in countless examples of weird fiction—Egress consider the politics of death and community in a way that is indebted to Fisher’s own forms of cultural criticism, ruminating on personal experience in the hope of making it productively impersonal.

Towards a Conceptual Militancy

Towards a Conceptual Militancy
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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 9781785350405
ISBN-13 : 1785350404
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Towards a Conceptual Militancy by : Mike Watson

Towards a Conceptual Militancy is aimed at the interested art-viewing public, artists, the politically disillusioned, and readers of both European Philosophy, particularly of Speculative Realism/OOP, and Accelerationism. This book calls on the artist to mount a defence of subjective freedom in opposition to the twin objectifying factors of Science and Capital, personified by growing surveillance technology. Presenting the artistic declaration of freedom as exemplary of how the subject might circumvent its objectification, Towards a Conceptual Militancy brings art back into the social sphere following decades of cultural commodification.

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780262631433
ISBN-13 : 0262631431
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia by : Brian Massumi

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of Deleuze's entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally, the dozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic, scientific, and popular urban culture make the book an important, perhaps even central text within current debates on postmodern culture and politics.Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the general title for two books published a decade apart. The first, Anti-Oedipus, was a reaction to the events of May/June 1968; it is a critique of "state-happy" Marxism and "school-building" strains of psychoanalysis. The second, A Thousand Plateaus, is an attempt at a positive statement of the sort of nomad philosophy Deleuze and Guattari propose as an alternative to state philosophy.

Ghosts of My Life

Ghosts of My Life
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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9781782796244
ISBN-13 : 178279624X
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghosts of My Life by : Mark Fisher

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.