Mark Fisher The Political Aesthetics of Postcapitalism Methodologies of Valorization, 16 11 2011

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• 00:01:30

  Shame on you guys, Shame on you guys Shame on you guys Good evening. Today is with us Mark Fisher from London. He probably was known for his book on the creation of capitalist realism and also for his famous blog, Gatepunk. This is the second lecture this year in our series in the Center for Drama Art, Methodologies…

• 00:13:51

  And, uh... With the effect that it seems that no other pos... That no other modernity is possible. Um... Which I think takes us back to this, um... This, uh... This kind of Louise Mensch, um... Kind of, uh... Symptomatic attitude. That, uh... Any kind of resistance to capital... Uh... Any kind of, uh... Alternative…

• 00:25:14

  The ways in which these technologies could function differently in different kind of social-political contexts. . I think we don't want... We really have to think, um, very clearly, then, about how we're gonna articulate alternatives to capitalism that are not involving this, any kind of model, a retreat into…

• 00:42:56

  ah... the domination of those things by... ah... corporate and media... corporate and military... military interests. Um... And... I... I do think... um... that media is crucial, as it were. Um... And I think this is one other... dimension... of this... um... this question of political aesthetics. Um... One often…

• 00:58:15

  yeah and we were talking about what we call capitalism as a form of capitalism. yeah and we were talking about what we call capitalism as a form of capitalism. the point which you could be named was the point in which it's already weakening because you know it's used to be a natural field of assumptions or a natural…

• 01:11:27

  You know that it involves making things desirable. It involves making people think that a public sphere is desirable. Not in, not accepting its binary where we're the kind of on the side of kind of dreary ethical worthiness versus you know exciting glossy glossy capitalism. We have to both say that that this you know…

• 01:23:01

  I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's... I mean, it's…

• 01:36:55

  We can end here. It's very interesting. I've spent almost two hours here, so I think it's worth it. Okay. Thank you, guys, especially the guys from the ! People's ! 75