Mark Fisher and Postcapitalist Desire in Matt Colqhhouns Egress FULL_1

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:00

  This is Acid Horizon, a theory podcast which confronts global crisis and the specter of a world that could be free. This is Episode 5, Mark Fisher and Post-Capitalist Desire, a reading of Egress with Matt Cocoon. Thank you for joining us. Hey folks, this is Craig. Before we start our episode, I just wanted…

• 00:16:40

  performances and its transgressive artworks be re-understood in this quite, an accusation of this quite abusive relationship? On the most obvious level, that's not really a difficult thing to untangle. There's a great difference. Between, you know, the consent given in a piece of artwork and the lack of consent that…

• 00:36:55

  So in that respect, I feel like that's the underlying project that Mark was initially a part of. He had his own niche within that and developed his own sort of ideas and theories, but he was kind of part of that wider tapestry in a way. And that's not really like a cohesion, it's a movement that lacks cohesion…

• 00:48:34

  But in the book, you attempt to vindicate Marx's brand of accelerationism with the claim, it does not mean accelerating any or everything in capitalism willy-nilly in the hope that capitalism will thereby collapse. Rather, it means accelerating the processes of destratification that capitalism cannot but obstruct. So…

• 01:01:11

  Those recordings were made available pretty soon after Mark's death. I took it upon myself to transcribe the first of them. And in a way, I mentioned this in egress. It was kind of beyond Mark's death that doing that was part of the process. It was kind of the galvanizing moment that made me want to write the book…

• 01:15:37

  Kant's understanding of the, of numina, of things in themselves, of trying to think, you know, what a table is without any relationship to us. We have no, we've got no, it's impossible for us to think things in themselves. We're always mediating everything through our own subjectivity. And then there's the sort…

• 01:27:12

  I mean, compared to other ways that companies have tried to capitalize on the crisis of COVID-19. Yeah. I mean, they are not, you know, it's capitalist exchange, but it's done in a way that is just and, you know, arguably is going to contribute more to, is going to contribute to a consciousness of, you know…

• 01:39:09

  For our next recording, I think we have Ben Burgess from Zero Books on. We're going to be talking about analytic philosophy and the Marxism of G.A. Cohen. I hope you're excited about it. Take care of yourselves. Thank you. Thank you.