No Time Mark Fisher Virtual Futures 2011

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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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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: stage-1 acceptance ruling — lane open-web-talk approved for opus-only hosting; mp3 tier deferred pending a disk volume). Series: standalone. Source: audio original (.mp3).

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• 00:00:00

  Tanya Cushman Reviewer:"Petra Petrovic I'm on my Blackberry until 2 in the morning. I don't sleep well, but I still can't keep up with what is sent to me. Two. Then, in the elevator to the 62nd floor, I started to think about the deal I was supposed to be brokering, the Abraxas buyout of MCL Parnassus. I hadn't given…

• 00:04:50

  You try the swipe card again. At last, the green light comes on. You're not alone. At last, the green light comes on. You're through the door. Rushing down the corridor, which floor were you supposed to be on? You rifle through your bag until you find the documentation. You should be on this floor, but at the other…

• 00:09:16

  It's not that you... It's not that first of all there's an economic crash, then there's a depression for Berardi. It's that the crash happens because the psychic infrastructure cannot withstand the pressure that was put on it. And another sort of echo between these two texts was the role of drugs, Limitless. The book…

• 00:15:19

  The ever-increasing speed of communicative capitalism, as some have called it, and the slowing, retarded, or psychical time of culture. And... And I think how we can grasp this is by thinking that the very fact this conference is happening at all shows you how much cultural time has slowed down, as it were…

• 00:20:09

  I don't know what messages I've got, but, you know, at least the phone does. Right. And... This has taken us over in a quite dramatic way, I think. And partly my strategy then is to dystopianise, to take real things. And I think back to before this had taken over your brain to this degree, where you couldn't enjoy…

• 00:26:06

  The dissolution of that world into a world of what Baradi and others have called precarity, post-Fordism, short-term contracts, no guarantees, and also the disappearance of a kind of social welfare net to protect you. And the digital media, or digital communication media, have clearly played a major part…

• 00:31:44

  OK, so what is the way out of this? I'll sort that out really quickly. Well, I don't think it's... One thing is going back is always a strategy of defeat. Part of what's underlying what I'm saying here is really that who is it that owns the sense of time in which we live? It's neoliberalism. Or neoliberalism…

• 00:35:47

  And maybe we can look towards a kind of digital psychedelia, in a way, which would involve a dilation of time, instead of this constantly harried sense of time in which we seem to be required to live at the moment. And since I've gone over my time, I'll stop there. Thank you.