Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures - Hardcover

$19.95

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures - Hardcover

Name: Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures - Hardcover
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9781913462482
Price: 19.95 USD
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by Mark Fisher

$19.95

Book Overview

A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016.

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...

ISBN	9781913462482
Author	Mark Fisher
Publisher	Repeater
Genre	News & politics, Education, and Philosophy
Format	Hardcover
Published	January 2021
Language	ENG- English
Pages	264
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print