Exiting The Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher (audio)
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- Mark Fisher's Exiting the Vampire Castle (audio)
"We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree - on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take place without fear of exclusion and excommunication."
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Mark Fisher
24 November 2013
Audio by Sam Swann
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I hadn’t read this essay for a while, so I really enjoyed this. Fisher was a unique voice and I miss it. Really well read, Sam. Thank you.
Cool reading
Thank you
Very well read!
Thank you! I found Fisher's work so formative.
Some interesting and extremely valid points well put. Maybe a little verbose for a video - I shall look forward to reading it on the 'open democracy' webpage so that I can digest it further and make more relevant comments.
the defense of russel brand has aged very well. anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand that mark is writing about them.
It has only been confirmed more with age, think outside your cult dogma.
@@404errorpagenotfound.6 your cult dogma has blinded you. mark fisher owns you
Yeah, Fisher isn't rushing to the defence of Brand (despite admitting major admiration at the time), he's using what happened with Brand to demonstrate his point about the toxicity of left-wing spaces on social media. He's essentially saying: "Brand is at least *trying* to positively represent the working class and left-wing politics, and for that he gets publicly nitpicked and harassed by people on twitter. Furthermore, these attacks are coming from privileged individuals on clearly classist lines, in complete contrast to left-wing values"
People in this comment section attempting to retroactively invalidate the essay by using Brand's behaviour a full decade later clearly lack self-awareness.
@@86pp73 I can't believe people still associate "the left" with the working class. The left leadership and foot soldiers are all the privileged, rich, mainly white kids that exploit minorities to maintain their own privileged positions. The left despise the working class as beneath them. The subjects of grievance based identity politics are the new proletariat ever since workers chose capitalism and social mobility over communism.
@@86pp73 great take, couldn't have said it better myself
I'd like to hear the author's thoughts on Russell Brand's recent turn to whatever his current Christian-entrepreneur gimmick, or whatever he's doing.
unfortunately Mark Fisher took his own life in 2017, so we won't know. But I'm sure he would've been gutted.
I'm sure that it would be searing but tragically he committed suicide in 2013 so we will never know.
The passionate defence of Russel Brand hasn't aged well at all
It's funny how Fisher talks about Brand being vilified by a number of people on left for his narcissism, which he casts off as being down to a subconscious (or even fully conscious) dislike of outspoken working class voices, when it was actually down to the fact that many of us could see that Brand is a narcissist. "Brand’s intervention was not a bid for leadership; it was an inspiration, a call to arms" is a soberingly inaccurate observation looking back, considering his current iteration as a New Age conspiracy maniac. And that's before we get to the extensive sexual abuse allegations.
The defense of Owen Jones has aged pretty badly now as well, considering how much of a moralising bully he is.
I have a deep respect for Fisher, and there's aspects of this essay that address long concerns of mine, but this was clearly written in another era.
I know Fisher suffered from depression but in many ways he wasn’t cynical enough. Actually admiring a circus entertainer like Brand is cringe and it was back then
@holeymoley5138 I could never stand Brand. He creeped me out, but back in the day he seemed like a down guy and I felt bad for judging him. My first instincts were proven right though 🤷♂️
Truthfully, it hasn't aged well because it was born sick. Russell Brand was always a grandiose narcissist, this is obvious to anyone who knows anything about cluster B personality disorders, and this essay was written a full five years after Brand's shameful shock jockery.
Fisher should have given himself a break from everything and left Britain for a while.
He might still be alive.
An insight into Fisher's astonishingly bad judgement. He seems to have been utterly blinded by class ideology with Brand - because he was from a working class background he could do no wrong. "Four legs good, two legs bad."