Postcapitalist Desire The Final Lectures
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures by Mark Fisher is a collection of transcripts from Fisher’s last series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, delivered in late 2016. Published by Watkins Media Limited on January 12, 2021, this edition spans 264 pages and is presented in English. The book captures Fisher’s exploration of the intricate relationship between desire and capitalism, posing critical questions about what we truly desire and how these desires can evolve.
Readers will find a thoughtful examination of cultural and political themes, as Fisher reflects on the emergence and failure of counterculture in the 1970s and the implications of his left-accelerationist ideas. Edited by Matt Colquhoun, this collection not only showcases Fisher’s pedagogical approach but also delves into the potential for raising a new kind of consciousness. The work invites contemplation on the psychedelic nature of this process, challenging conventional perceptions and encouraging a deeper understanding of desire within the context of political ideologies and social science.
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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…
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