(Session 1) Mark Fisher - Terminator vs. Avatar

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• 00:00:00

  the revolutionary path, or what came after revolution, a new kind of strategy, would be to somehow accelerate capitalism to the point where it kind of went beyond itself. This got revisited, this moment, in a sort of equally forgotten period in the 90s in UK philosophy. In a moment that is almost entirely forgotten…

• 00:03:38

  In his introduction to his 1994 translation of Lyotard's Levitan economy, from which the above extraordinary outbursts come, Ian Hamilton Grant referred to a certain maturity of contemporary wisdom. According to this maturity, Grant observed, economy levitanale was a minor and short-lived explosion of a somewhat naive…

• 00:07:04

  Hands up, furthermore, those who really believe that these desires for restored so-called organic wholeness are extrinsic to late capitalist culture rather than fully incorporated components of its sub-ethereal infrastructure. Hollywood itself tells us that we may appear to be always on technomatics, hooked…

• 00:09:59

  While Antionippus remains in many ways a text of the late 60s, the Vedan economy anticipates the punk 70s and draws upon the 60s that punk retrospectively projected. And not far beneath Lyotard's desire to drunk yes lies the no of hatred, anger and frustration. No satisfaction, no fun, no future. It is these results…

• 00:12:47

  Alex will also be looking at some of these problems quite closely. Land's withering assaults on the academic left, or the emborge-wasified state-subsidised grumbling, that so often calls itself academic Marxism, remains trenchant. The unwritten rule of these careerist sambaggers, to use Graham Harmon's wonderful…

• 00:15:33

  The high road to thinking no longer passes through a deepening of human cognition, but rather through a becoming inhuman of cognition, a migration of cognition out into the emerging planetary techno-science reservoir, into dehumanised landscapes and emptied spaces where human culture will be dissolved. You might know…

• 00:18:39

  So therefore capital's human face is not something that can eventually set aside an optional component of sheep cocoon with which it can ultimately dispense. The abstract processes of decoding capitalism's set-up must be contained by improvised archaisms lest capitalism cease being capital. Similarly, markets…

• 00:21:47

  It's time to leave behind the logics of failed revolutions and think ahead again.