K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

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Contents
Foreword by Simon Reynolds
Editor’s Introduction by Darren Ambrose
Why K?
Part One: Methods of Dreaming: Books
Book Meme
Space, Time, Light, All the Essentials — Reflections on J.G. Ballard Season (BBC 4)
Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan
A Fairground’s Painted Swings
What Are the Politics of Boredom? (Ballard 2003 Remix)
Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Fantasy Kits: Steven Meisel’s “State of Emergency”
The Assassination of J.G. Ballard
A World of Dread and Fear
Ripley’s Glam
Methods of Dreaming
Atwood’s Anti-Capitalism
Toy Stories: Puppets, Dolls and Horror Stories
Zer0 Books Statement
Part Two: Screens, Dreams and Spectres: Film and Television
A Spoonful of Sugar
She’s Not My Mother
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Portmeirion: An Ideal for Living
Golgothic Materialism
This Movie Doesn’t Move Me
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich ‘n’ Roll
We Want It All
Gothic Oedipus: Subjectivity and Capitalism in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins
When We Dream, Do We Dream We’re Joey?
Notes on Cronenberg’s eXistenZ
I Filmed It So I Didn’t Have to Remember It Myself
Spectres of Marker and the Reality of the Third Way
Dis-identity Politics
“You Have Always Been the Caretaker”: The Spectral Spaces of the Overlook Hotel
Coffee Bars and Internment Camps
Rebel Without a Cause
Robot Historian in the Ruins
Review of Tyson
“They Killed Their Mother”: Avatar as Ideological Symptom
Precarity and Paternalism
Return of the Gift: Richard Kelly’s The Box
Contributing to Society
“Just Relax and Enjoy It”: Geworfenheit on the BBC
Star Wars Was a Sell-Out From the Start
Gillian Wearing: Self Made
Batman’s Political Right Turn
Remember Who the Enemy Is
Beyond Good and Evil: Breaking Bad
Classless Broadcasting: Benefits Street
Rooting for the Enemy: The Americans
How to Let Go: The Leftovers, Broadchurch, and The Missing
The Strange Death of British Satire
Review: Terminator Genisys
The House that Fame Built: Celebrity Big Brother
Sympathy for the Androids: The Twisted Morality of Westworld
Part Three: Choose Your Weapons: Writing on Music
The By Now Traditional Glasto Rant
Art Pop, No, Really
k-punk, or the Glampunk Art Pop Discontinuum
Noise as Anti-Capital: As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade
Lions After Slumber, or What is Sublimation Today?
The Outside of Everything Now
For Your Unpleasure: The Hauter-Couture of Goth
It Doesn’t Matter If We All Die: The Cure’s Unholy Trinity
Look at the Light
Is Pop Undead?
Memorex for the Kraken: The Fall’s Pulp Modernism
Scritti’s Sweet Sickness
Postmodernism as Pathology, Part 2
Choose Your Weapons
Variations on a Theme
Running on Empty
You Remind Me of Gold: Dialogue with Mark Fisher and Simon Reynolds
Militant Tendencies Feed Music
Autonomy in the UK
The Secret Sadness of the Twenty-First Century: James Blake’s Overgrown
Review: David Bowie’s The Next Day
The Man Who Has Everything: Drake’s Nothing Was the Same
Break it Down: DJ Rashad’s Double Cup
Start Your Nonsense! On eMMplekz and Dolly Dolly
Review: Sleaford Mods’ Divide and Exit and Chubbed Up: The Singles Collection
Test Dept: Where Leftist Idealism and Popular Modernism Collide
No Romance Without Finance
Part Four: For Now, Our Desire is Nameless: Political Writings
Don’t Vote, Don’t Encourage Them
October 6, 1979: Capitalism and Bipolar Disorder
What If They Had a Protest and Everyone Came
Defeating the Hydra
The Face of Terrorism Without a Face
Conspicuous Force and Verminisation
My Card: My Life: Comments on the AMEX Red Campaign
The Great Bullingdon Club Swindle
The Privatisation of Stress
Kettle Logic
Winter of Discontent
Football/Capitalist Realism/Utopia
The Game Has Changed
Creative Capitalism
Reality Management
UK Tabloid
The Future is Still Ours: Autonomy and Post-Capitalism
Aesthetic Poverty
The Only Certainties are Death and Capital
Why Mental Health is a Political Issue
The London Hunger Games
Time-Wars: Towards an Alternative for the Neo-Capitalist Era
Not Failing Better, but Fighting to Win
The Happiness of Margaret Thatcher
Suffering With a Smile
How to Kill a Zombie: Strategising the End of Neoliberalism
Getting Away With Murder
No One is Bored, Everything is Boring
A Time for Shadows
Limbo is Over
Communist Realism
Pain Now
Abandon Hope (Summer is Coming)
For Now, Our Desire is Nameless
Anti-Therapy
Democracy is Joy
Cybergothic vs. Steampunk
Mannequin Challenge
Part Five: We Have to Invent the Future: Interviews
They Can Be Different in the Future Too: Interviewed by Rowan Wilson for Ready Steady Book (2010)
Capitalist Realism: Interviewed by Richard Capes (2011)
Preoccupying: Interviewed by the Occupied Times (2012)
We Need a Post-Capitalist Vision: Interviewed by AntiCapitalist Initiative (2012)
“We Have to Invent the Future”: An Unseen Interview with Mark Fisher (2012)
Hauntology, Nostalgia and Lost Futures: Interviewed by Valerio Mannucci and Valerio Mattioli for Nero (2014)
Part Six: We Are Not Here to Entertain You: Reflections
One Year Later…
Spinoza, k-punk, Neuropunk
Why Dissensus?
New Comments Policy
Comments Policy (Latest)
Chronic Demotivation
How to Keep Oedipus Alive in Cyberspace
We Dogmatists
London Litened
No Future 2012
Ridicule Is Nothing to Be Scared Of (Slight Return)
Break Through in Grey Lair
Real Abstractions: The Application of Theory to the Modern World
No I’ve Never Had a Job…
Fear and Misery in Neoliberal Britain
Exiting the Vampire Castle
Good for Nothing
Part Seven: Acid Communism
Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction)
Notes
Acknowledgements
Copyright