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Postcapitalist desire : the final lectures / Mark Fisher ; edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun.

By: Fisher, Mark, 1968-2017 [author.].
Contributor(s): Colquhoun, Matt [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Repeater Books, 2021Publisher: ©2021Description: 251 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781913462482 (hardback); 191346248X (hardback).Other title: Post capitalist desire : Mark Fisher, the final lectures [Cover title].Uniform titles: Lectures. Selections. Subject(s): Capitalism | PhilosophyDDC classification: 306.342
Contents:
Introduction : No more miserable Monday mornings / by Matt Colquhoun -- Note on the text -- Lecture one : What is postcaptalism? -- Lecture two : "a social and psychic revolution of almost inconceivable magnitude" : countercultural Bohemia as prefiguration -- Lecture three : From class consciousness to group consciousness -- Lecture four : "Union power and soul power" -- Lecture five : libidinal Marxism -- Appendix one : course syllabus -- Appendix two : "No more miserable Monday mornings" tracklist.
Summary: "Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element - the classroom - outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished. Beginning with that most fundamental of questions - "Do we really want what we say we want?" - Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.For Fisher, this process of consciousness raising was always, fundamentally, psychedelic - just not in the way that we might think..." - back cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016.

Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element -- the classroom -- outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished.

Beginning with that most fundamental of questions -- "Do we really want what we say we want?" -- Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.

For Fisher, this process of consciousness raising was always, fundamentally, psychedelic -- just not in the way that we might think...

Introduction : No more miserable Monday mornings / by Matt Colquhoun -- Note on the text -- Lecture one : What is postcaptalism? -- Lecture two : "a social and psychic revolution of almost inconceivable magnitude" : countercultural Bohemia as prefiguration -- Lecture three : From class consciousness to group consciousness -- Lecture four : "Union power and soul power" -- Lecture five : libidinal Marxism -- Appendix one : course syllabus -- Appendix two : "No more miserable Monday mornings" tracklist.

"Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element - the classroom - outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished. Beginning with that most fundamental of questions - "Do we really want what we say we want?" - Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.For Fisher, this process of consciousness raising was always, fundamentally, psychedelic - just not in the way that we might think..." - back cover.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Mark Fisher (1968 - 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and, later, Repeater Books. His blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. He wrote three books, Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Matt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull, East Yorkshire. He is the author of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and blogs at xenogothic.com.