Schon mitbekommen? Im Brumaire Verlag erscheint demnächst die deutsche Übersetzung von Mark Fishers „Capitalist Desires“. Hab’s gerade im Jacobin Podcast gehört und freue mich tierisch

https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/mark-fisher-sehnsucht-nach-dem-kapitalismus

#MarkFisher #CapitalistRealism

@LexYeen - 'It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
Mark Fisher wrote a whole book about it.
https://bookwyrm.social/book/881594/s/capitalist-realism
#CapitalistRealism #MarkFisher

“The spectre of a world which could be free”

“[T]he closer the real possibility of liberating the individual from the constraints once justified by scarcity and immaturity, the greater the need for maintaining and streamlining these constraints lest the established order of domination dissolve. Civilisation has to protect itself against the spectre of a world which could be free.
[…] In exchange for the commodities that enrich their lives […] individuals sell not only their labour but also their free time. […] People dwell in apartment concentrations — and have private automobiles with which they can no longer escape into a different world. They have huge refrigerators stuffed with frozen foods. They have dozens of newspapers and magazines which espouse the same ideals. They have innumerable choices, innumerable gadgets which are all of the same sort and keep them occupied and divert their attention from the real issue — which is the awareness that they could both work less and determine their own needs and satisfactions.”
— Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civlisation 2

The claim of the book is that the last forty years have been about the exorcising of “the spectre of a world which could be free”. Adopting the perspective of such a world allows us to reverse the emphasis of much recent left-wing struggle. Instead of seeking to overcome capital, we should focus on what capital must always obstruct: the collective capacity to produce, care and enjoy. We on the left have had it wrong for a while: it is not that we are anti-capitalist, it is that capitalism, with all its visored cops, its teargas, and all the theological niceties of its economics, is set up to block the emergence of this Red Plenty. The overcoming of capital has to be fundamentally based on the simple insight that, far from being about “wealth creation”, capital necessarily and always blocks the production of common wealth.

Unfinished Introduction to Acid Communism by Mark Fisher

https://my-blackout.com/2019/04/25/mark-fisher-acid-communism-unfinished-introduction/

#MarkFisher #Leftism

The philosophers Armen Avanessian and Mark Fisher meet in Innsbruck at a Zirbelstuben-like venue to talk over Semmeln and coffee about smartphones, depression and the ambiguities of academic life.

(from 2016 I believe)

#markfisher #acidcommunism #postcapitalistdesire #accelerationism #armenavanessian
#hyperstition #capitalistrealism

https://www.mixcloud.com/BCR_Radio/precarious-breakfast/

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Mark Fisher: K-Punk. The Collected and Unpublished Writings (2004-2016)

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the ghosts of #markfisher by lola seaton

“Is it possible to retain some of the libidinal, technological infrastructure of capital and move beyond capital?"

Here Fisher dreams of a world “in which all the marvels of communicative technology could be combined with a sense of solidarity much stronger than anything social democracy could muster".

"Who knows what a culture in which the internet co- existed with strong social security would look like?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20230105195308/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/01/mark-fisher-postcapitalist-desire-review

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Already half way through this book 📖 and can't put it down! How relevant it is today even though it was written over a decade ago #MarkFisher #CapitalistRealism

matt colquhoun: egress: on mourning melancholy and #markfisher

good for nothing by mark fisher 2014

mental health is a political issue

"I’ve suffered from depression intermittently since I was a teenager. Some of these episodes have been highly debilitating – resulting in self-harm, withdrawal (where I would spend months on end in my own room, only venturing out to sign-on or to buy the minimal amounts of food I was consuming), and time spent on psychiatric wards."

https://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12841

#MarkFisher #CapitalistRealism #Depression

https://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12841

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matt colquhoun: egress: on mourning, melancholy and mark fisher

#MarkFisher #Bataille

The Mark Fisher generation

In 2009 Capitalist Realism sought to upend the status quo. As political paralysis returns, its message is as urgent as ever.

By Alex Niven

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https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstatesman.com%2Fculture%2Fbooks%2F2022%2F11%2Fmark-fisher-capitalist-realism-k-punk-alex-niven

@AbandonedAmerica This reminded me that I just finished reading The Weird and the Eerie by #MarkFisher, and kept thinking of your work—questions of (failures of) presence and absence in places apparently empty of inhabitants.

Hello w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Set-of-interconnected-self-actualising-machines!

I intend this to be somewhat of an introduction, although I do realise that it would constitute a rather bizarre greeting in real life. This won't be a personal account, by that I mean I don't intend to post personal content (i.e. about my real world identity). This isn't really for anonymity, despite admittedly being quite a shy person, I think it's more to do with not wanting to attempt a serious explanation of my context, something which I doubt is achievable through this medium. For me underrepresentation is better than misrepresentation, although I understand if people find my presentation here dishonest or unaccountable.

I'll use this account partly for listening, a sampling spoon through which to experience the soup of conversation and thought. I'll also do some tooting, I like this word, I might have said contributing, tossing new, or maybe reused, ingredients into the soup, but that gives the impression, I think, of some final objective, an endpoint. Most likely, listening will be the larger of these two parts, and at least for the short term, both parts, the whole, will occupy very little of my time. Expect sporadicity and inconsistency!

I also wanted to say something about what I am interested in, this is difficult since if I just say a lot of words then what is there to relate my meaning, my intentions, to the meaning which you understand? "Language disguises thought" - Wittgenstein. Well after much deliberation and many sleepless nights I decided to... just say a lot of words, although do bear in mind that the following list is just that, merely a collection of words that I, at the time of writing, happened to perceive as having meanings that corresponded, perhaps imperfectly, to topics that I am interested in. Interested does not necessarily mean fully-endorse/believe/would-describe-myself-as/is-knowledgeable-about.

#philosophy #absurdism #existentialism #anarchism #communism #anticapitalism #mutualaid #prefiguration #ontology #phenomenology #poststructuralism #structuralism #mathematics #chaos #topology #imagination #art #education #linguistics #literature #music #machines #networks #cybernetics #systems #sustainability #ecology #technology #sciencefiction #utopia #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #MurrayBookchin #NoamChomsky #PeterKropotkin #AdamCurtis #KenLoach #AlbertCamus #GillesDeleuze #JacquesDerrida #JeanPaulSartre #MarkFisher #SimoneDeBeauvoir #FranzKafka #GeorgeOrwell #PercyByssheShelley #MaryShelley #UrsulaKLeGuin

“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs). It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.”

#MarkFisher "Capitalist Realism"

Inclusive, tem um texto do Mark Fisher que ele aponta algumas coisas sobre o noise e sua relação com uma “musicalidade” ou não. Lembro que haviam outros, mas só me recordo deste:
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/006259.html #MarkFisher #noise

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