Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection
of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and
blogger Mark Fisher in his element — the classroom — outlining a
project that Fisher’s death left so bittersweetly unfinished.
Beginning with that
most fundamental of questions — “Do we really want what we say we
want?” — Fisher explores the relationship between desire and
capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still
excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and
failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued
development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume
charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising
of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political
implications of doing so.
For Fisher, this
process of consciousness raising was always, fundamentally,
psychedelic — just not in the way that we might think…