A review by gregbrown
Postcapitalist Desire by Mark Fisher
3.0
Like me, so many readers of Mark Fisher develop a personal attachment to his work. He drew out the link between personal despair and the overwhelming doomed feeling that There Is No Alternative to capitalism.
In his last few lectures, he tried to understand with students how we might find a way out, by harnessing the power of desires to drive ourselves towards a post-capitalist existence, and find new ways of relating to each other that didn't carry the same accumulated ideological baggage. Sadly, his suicide abridged the series, so all we have are the first five lectures to go off of, but they're a wonderful example of his mind in motion, engaging with these convoluted works and constantly making them legible and urgent to his students.
This is kind of a curio thought: only published because his untimely death prevented him from forming the thoughts into a finished work. Still, a worthwhile read and makes me want to revisit the rest of his work.
In his last few lectures, he tried to understand with students how we might find a way out, by harnessing the power of desires to drive ourselves towards a post-capitalist existence, and find new ways of relating to each other that didn't carry the same accumulated ideological baggage. Sadly, his suicide abridged the series, so all we have are the first five lectures to go off of, but they're a wonderful example of his mind in motion, engaging with these convoluted works and constantly making them legible and urgent to his students.
This is kind of a curio thought: only published because his untimely death prevented him from forming the thoughts into a finished work. Still, a worthwhile read and makes me want to revisit the rest of his work.