A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of
lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016. 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...
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The Final Lectures
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ISBN
9781913462376
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Random House Publishing Services
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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