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ReynoldsRetro D-Generation - or, the dawn of K-Punk
"ReynoldsRetro D-Generation - or, the dawn of K-Punk" belongs to the k-punk/public-theory line, where culture criticism becomes a way of thinking politics, temporality, and collective feeling in public.
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Core idea
The page matters because Fisher's public theory was built through cultural criticism rather than alongside it. Blog posts, dialogues, memorials, and public essays all serve as media for thinking capitalist realism, affect, desire, and afterlife.
These texts work by refusing the border between criticism and theory. Music, film, blogs, theory-books, and scene reports are turned into relays through which wider political and temporal diagnoses can be made in public.
That matters because Fisher's archive is one of the clearest later public afterlives of the CCRU. The section needs these pages to show how difficult conceptual material can circulate through public criticism without losing intensity.
How to read this text
Read for the move from cultural object to conceptual claim. The strongest pages turn review or commentary into a method of theory-construction.
Track how the page names collective feeling, blocked futurity, or political desire. Those are usually the public-theoretical hinges.
Representative extracts
History · paragraph 2
As I discuss in the foreword to k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher, I had a meeting of minds with Mark several years before I actually met him in person, or indeed even knew of his existence. In 1994 I wrote a mini-feature on D-Generation, an ideas-packed groop whose press-release spiels caught my fancy.
History · paragraph 2
In 1994 I wrote a mini-feature on D-Generation, an ideas-packed groop whose press-release spiels caught my fancy. They sent me a press release / letter and a demo tape for an EP titled Entropy in the UK. D-Generation - or, the dawn of K- Punk Jim Jarmusch movies - and their soundtrack s Mark E.
History · paragraph 2
D-Generation - or, the dawn of K- Punk Jim Jarmusch movies - and their soundtrack s Mark E. Smith at Xmas ► October (7) ► August (1) ► July (4) ► June (5) ► May (3) ► April (9) ► March (8) ► February (6) ► January (3) ► 2017 (54) ► 2016 (37) ► 2015 (56) ► 2014 (44) ► 2013 (130) ► 2012 (12) ► 2011 (23) ► 2010 (17) ► 2009 (30) ► 2008 (103) ► 2007 (74)
Style · paragraph 8
Posted by SIMON REYNOLDS at 4:13 PM Labels: ANTI-RETRO, D-GENERATION, ENTROPY IN THE UK, HAUNTOLOGY, JOHNNY ROTTEN, K-PUNK, MARK FISHER, NOSTALGIA CONSPIRACY, PUNK, SAMPLADELIA, SIMON BIDDELL, TECHNO HAUNTED BY THE GHOST OF PUNK, THE LOWER DEPTHS 6 comments: ashar astref said...
Style · paragraph 8
Posted by SIMON REYNOLDS at 4:13 PM Labels: ANTI-RETRO, D-GENERATION, ENTROPY IN THE UK, HAUNTOLOGY, JOHNNY ROTTEN, K-PUNK, MARK FISHER, NOSTALGIA CONSPIRACY, PUNK, SAMPLADELIA, SIMON BIDDELL, TECHNO HAUNTED BY THE GHOST OF PUNK, THE LOWER DEPTHS 6 comments: ashar astref said... Hi Simon, I'm going to do a talk and a listening session next monday at my art school in Marseille, France about Mark to introduce him and his work to the students and teachers, I'm a student there.
Appears in sections
Mark Fisher and Public Theory Primary section
Fisher as bridge figure, public critic, and one of the clearest routes into the archive's afterlife.