K-Punk · the Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) by Fisher, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Foreword by Simon Reynolds Editor’s Introduction by Darren Ambrose Introduction: 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

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