K-Punk

[shiels]

it's not a body of work that can be forced into a book. It's out there, on the blogs and message boards. That's where it belongs.

but the stuff in that book isn’t on the blogs or here

 

[craner]

Nick Laird.

 

[luka]

but the stuff in that book isn’t on the blogs or here

What's that gotta do with anything?!

 

[shiels]

Well I can’t read it otherwise can I

 

[luka]

I don't understand

 

[shiels]

It's unseen material. the collected writings was lots of stuff i already read but this might be new stuff

 

[luka]

I know it's unseen material. It's lectures. It says so.

 

[shiels]

I understand that the unfinished work is tantalising, we lionise the dead etc. Suicide brings another dimension… but all that aside you’ve said this project was exciting, so let’s see a bit more of it

 

[craner]

I know I'm being picky, but the skull on the cover is a bit much.

 

[version]

I know I'm being picky, but the skull on the cover is a bit much.

I get a Hunter Thompson vibe from it.

 

[shiels]

I don't mind a skull. Sunglasses on a skull however.....

 

[version]

Are Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie good?

 

[luka]

That's definitely the commercial strategy.

This makes it sound as if I think it's a purely cynical operation and I don't think that. It's largely organic in as much as there is a suicide icon mould already existing. It wasn't publishers and publicity agents that forced the fit. Young people did it spotaneously and naturally.

 

[luka]

Are Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie good?

The books can't compete with the blog particularly where they are blog posts inside books.

 

[version]

Why not?

 

[craner]

The books can't compete with the blog particularly where they are blog posts inside books.

Our main gripe is that our period is excised from the record. And they were all the non-skull bits, the bit the Japan essay came from.

 

[luka]

Why not?

by dint of being less good.

 

[version]

by dint of being less good.

It's not the same material then? Or do you just view it as diluted when removed from the context of the blog?

 

[version]

This makes it sound as if I think it's a purely cynical operation and I don't think that. It's largely organic in as much as there is a suicide icon mould already existing. It wasn't publishers and publicity agents that forced the fit. Young people did it spotaneously and naturally.

Someone recently published a piece reassessing Capitalist Realism and got some unimpressed comments for a closing paragraph on Mark and Kurt Cobain's respective suicides.

Reflections on Mark Fisher's Essay on "Capitalist Realism"

Fisher's book on Capitalist Realism remains a popular reference point for many would be anti-capitalists in the UK. As such, we have decided to translate this new review from our comrades in Italy, where the book has only recently been published. See also our reviews of Inventing the Future...

libcom.org

 

[version]

Our main gripe is that our period is excised from the record. And they were all the non-skull bits, the bit the Japan essay came from.

"Skull" and "non-skull" definitely need to be added to the Dissensus framework.

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