Nicholas Blincoe Parrot Room Discussion

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• 00:00:00

  So, Nicholas, at this time, we'll kind of pivot the discussion a little bit. We'll open up a Q&A for all of the patrons who are in here. And I just wanted to say thank you for appearing on the show. And the following bit of the conversation will be on Zero Book's Patreon account as a sort of parrot room discussion…

• 00:03:44

  I'll let them get to it first. Yeah, go ahead, James. Go ahead and unmute. Thank you. I guess I have. Sort of asked on mute because I don't have it fully formed yet as a question, but I've just finished rereading Flatline Constructs and something that, you know, and also reading Machinic Desire for this. I wonder…

• 00:09:26

  for a lot of the i guess stuff fisher gets up to later in his career and then you can see it sort of um in the psychoanalytic terms he uses it kind of makes more sense to to think of hauntology in that way because you know why have a venti after the protest it's because uh it's because of the this like repressed…

• 00:16:39

  where maybe you sort of transformed out of your thoughts from that time um well my politics went strange because i was i was in bethlehem during the invasion of bethlehem in 2002 um so i became heavily involved in in palestinian issues and then back in england i won't i i ! just wanted palestine to to have a better…

• 00:25:14

  And I, of course, am interested in the place of science fiction of the late 80s and early 90s. And we mentioned like Neuromancer and we mentioned kind of like the work that kind of came out of the crises from this era and how important they are to a lot of the theory comes out of the CCRU, et cetera. And so I think…

• 00:29:28

  The university as grants to buy computers. I mean, at the time, you know what we have money to we have money. We didn't take out big student grants at the time we could manage, but we took out student grants to buy computers. So suddenly we all had computers. We were aware that changes in music, changes in filmmaking…

• 00:33:05

  It's the future. The most far away. So if I were to become death, the death drive as much as Nick Land would want it, what exactly would I have to do? Because obviously it's not going to be clicking through. Through TikTok or whatever. It's it has something else. It's closer to that than you may think. I'm not sure…

• 00:38:00

  thing of saying that they're both a similar movement from opposite sides but i think this delirious impulse is you can say you know if i'd be a galian monk say that nick clans reading was one-sided but at the same time it's because this yeah as as you may be saying inside time nicholas it's because this book's really…