K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2018
- Join Repeater Books for a discussion of Mark Fisher’s work with the novelist Hari Kunzru, Chapo Trap House co-host Amber A’Lee Frost, writer Sukhdev Sandhu, and musician Meredith Graves.
Book launch for “K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher,” published by Repeater Books. Filmed at Verso Books in Brooklyn on November 28, 2018.
When Mark Fisher committed suicide in 2017 at the age of 48, we lost one of the twenty-first century’s greatest cultural theorists. An icon for today’s insurgent “alt-left,” from 2003 to 2016 Fisher wrote dazzling analyses of our strange and terrifying world-neoliberalism, the loneliness and distracted boredom of digital life, and how these realities are reflected in music, film, TV, and literature. He also developed a vision of a different future-based on community, democratic control of the economy, creative freedom for all, and harnessing technology for the good of humanity.
“K-Punk” collects Fisher’s most incendiary and influential posts from his seminal blog “k-punk”, as well as a selection of his brilliantly insightful film, television and music reviews, together with his extraordinary writings on politics, activism, mental health, and popular modernism for numerous websites and magazines. Also included are two previously unpublished essays, the unfinished introduction to his planned book on “Acid Communism”, and an analysis of the 2016 US Presidential election, written shortly after Trump’s victory.
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Oh the irony.
Adverts popping up in the middle of a Fisher monologue.
Rage In Peace, Mark.
Fisher was not a failure. His writings are being read after his death. And besides educating young people is one of more of the more important jobs in society.
matthew coombs yeah, dudes a little full of himself me thinks
@@jcrass2361 I don't think he meant it as an insult, he's an old friend of his
I got what he meant by that, but it was a shitty way of putting it indeed
I'm 25 and I think Mark Fisher is the best theory writer I've ever come accross. Nothing I've read feels as forward looking and contemporary, even though it's from 2009.
Without further regarding Sandhu's self-infatuated performance I actually appreciate him putting it this way. It simply allows the address of "failure" and its terms to be repopulated but means no diminution of MF's work.
I'm just now discovering Fisher and i'm so overwhelmed by the quality of his ideas, I just want to read everything at once
I think it says a lot about his pier group that MarK is described as a failure because he taught teenagers and didn't make it into the rarified air of academia.
They are talking about income. INCOME. Which is the measure of a man. Ask any woman.
Having just read Capitalist Realism, I think his failure in academia is correlated to his failure of coherence; a hallmark of adolescence.
@@1d3m1g0d I do know what you mean, he reminds me of a lot of people I knew in the 1990's. A kind of juvenile angst and a weakness for critique over creation. His friends on the panel are just the worst kind of 'boho' intellectual but I still found Fisher likeable and more honest than the rest. But for them to make out he failed just because he didn't end up at Oxbridge or the Guardian is just ...well...yucky.
@@danno633 Agreed. I had to switch this panel off. These people are gross.
@@ChrisDragotta dude get out of your inceldom and develop something more engaging
Can't think of anyone less qualified to discuss Mark Fisher than Amber Frost
I wish someone would get the gain right on the microphones in these panels. All that buzz makes many people difficult to understand.
Yeah, the mismatch between their live and sampled footage is super jarring
They're easy to understand. Maybe don't watch this on your phone down at the bar, and expect a perfect listening experience.
@@profd65 fair enough, but some of us don’t have any other option but our phones (especially since the public libraries closed bc C-19), and we’re not down at the bar (I don’t understand that, maybe it’s a cultural reference going over my head). I mean, I listened to this on an older model iPhone (SE), bc it’s currently my only affordable option. I’m sure I’m not alone in not having a better option, and maybe the OP is in the same boat.
I should say that I definitely could understand every word of this (though I might need a dictionary), but I think it’s fair to point out that the gain, or whatever it is, is definitely harsh on the ears. Perhaps someone who isn’t a native English speaker, or who is hearing impaired, and so on, might have a much harder time understanding the words.
For me, when I bring something like that up in any comment section, it’s not just a matter of complaining bc I need perfection; I don’t. It’s a matter of informing the producers that it’s something they can improve on to better their content, and thereby be more welcoming and approachable to the folks who plain and simply will not tolerate such audio issues. You can criticize such folks all you like, and maybe rightfully so, but at the end of the day it’s not going to help the content creator get more views, and that means less people get to enjoy their work, and/or be educated and informed by it.
Point being: not all comments or complaints pointing out audio imperfections are just audiophile snobs whining bc they don’t get a perfect product. ✌️
Thanks for putting this up! Really great to see.
Thank you. What a wonderful panel. It’s a fabulous book I hope people who find the talk interesting go on to buy more of Marks writings.
Amber's talking points are so adorable in how they're obviously crowdsurced but still very heartfelt
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Amber go on chapo
Amber go on Chapo
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edit: Seriously though, she hasn’t been on the last few episodes. What’s she been up to?
Love this. The volume is a little bit different in different clips and the audio gain is a little high. I'd be nice if you fix that for the upcoming podcast. But it is a still a great piece!
The Benjamin of our time
Where can I get the book? Collection
Interpassivity is a concept posited by the Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller in his book of the same title (2000), it wasn't Mark Fisher.
oh gawd this styled like how we grew up
Why is it I've only just discovered Mark ? I found him through ineterest in his unfinished book, Acid Communism. I don't know.
well, who's gonna platform him?
I think that his best writings are on his blog, K-punk. I mean, books are fine, but the blog...
Rajko Pas the book is a compilation of the blog posts
I get the feeling that some people on the panel didn't do the homework.
44:10 Interpassivity didn't come from Mark Fisher
Pardon me Ma'am could you possibly get a little closer to the microphone by any chance I dont think you have a completely airtight seal yet, i cant hear your internal monologue yet.
It’s unnerving how many right wing or neoliberal campaign ads im getting while watching this
Music is stuck now because of DAWs. See Rick Beato. And also because of the culture in general. And the dead record companies. No mass audience. Lots of reasons.
Our girlfriend looking foyne
Hauntological music (unfamiliar to me in terms of recent British or Anglophone world music which I've largely stopped listening to - just an age thing, my problem) cf Sovietwave.
Working in a FE college (or any job for that matter) isn't success?
curiosofsigns I agree. It definitely isn’t failure, but I think Sukhdev was talking about ‘in the eyes of society’ rather than in objective terms.
I always read much of Fisher’s work as a project of reclamation, of highlighting the areas of life and culture that late capitalism deems not to be valuable and showing how it is actually invaluable.
In Mark’s own words (from the opening piece in the book, on teaching at a Further Education college): ‘This is difficult and challenging work, but the students are in the main excellent, and far more willing to enter into discussion than undergraduates. So I don’t at all regard this position as secondary or lesser than a “proper” academic post.’
I think we can take him at his word here, though we can also recognise that he struggled all his life to make enough money from his work despite working constantly and was ‘relegated’ from Higher Education to Further Education by a system that saw his work as frivolous - above high school but not high-minded enough for universities. Which of course is total bullshit, but I guess this is one measure of success. I’m fairly sure Sukhdev knows this too.
Watch my video titled "How Your Boss is Killing You/The Workplace: politicizing mental health" in which mark fisher is my main source of literature.
21:45 Depressive states of our human kind matters?
Amber
Why are they eating cartons of popcorn?
Oh I thought this was Korean Punk music
wow well new
Using the language of failure is the dumbest possible way to describe the career of Mark Fisher, for so many reasons.
Plastic water cups. Lol!
Seeing people not social distancing and unmasked is stressing me out.
Just can't figure out a the hoopla on this guy.
@ThisIsMyRealName Brand's (admittedly sometimes problematic, but i daresay still very valuable) persona comes from being an actual neer do well. It's not a put on in quite the same way. Brand's fame came from working stand up at the Edinburgh Fringe and then being coopted by the MTV machine. A car dealer starts with big capital, and is fundamentally divorced from the experiences of a fulltime junky. Brand now has privilege, but it's coloured by experience, whereas your car guy sells you a lower class accent to drop your defences.
@ThisIsMyRealName you're probably American. Class works differently in the UK.
Girl on the left can stop with the forced vocal fry Jesus
ugh the host is so cringe and self important... i bet she pats herself on the back before she goes to sleep each night.
Have the decency to fix the audio before posting. Blowing out eardrums hurts as much as capitalism
Did Mark die of existential depression? Seems like it. If he had depression and knew it, why didn't he give it the same attention, if not more- than all those concerns he was railing about? While depression can indeed be overwhelming, with more reason you would think he would have found a way to outgrow it or keep it in check, at least.
Really...?
@@ryanbennett7638 Why the insult, Ryan? I'm not attacking anyone. I'm merely asking questions.
@@GnosisMan50 One does not outgrow depression.
He wrote extensively about depression
Wow Meredith Graves has a real private school cadence...cringeworthy...
Amber, Amber who, what? Next please....
Lol at the verso loft man. This shit is cringe
These people are boring try-hards. I want Mark, not these clowns.
Its ironic these panelists of guardian film reviewers and music journalists talking about parasites..wow zero self awareness here 😆
What is the normal level of self awareness for someone who is literally dead?
These people and their fucking hand movements. Spend more time coming up with stuff to say and less time gesticulating.