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“Resistance doesn’t necessarily take the “logical” form of collective activism (unions, left-wing politics); it can be so distorted and imaginatively impoverished by the conditions of capitalism itself, that it expresses itself as the proto-fascist, anti-corporate nostalgia of America’s right-wing militias, or as a sort of hyper-individualistic survivalism”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“They have this child that’s sort of a silent witness to their lives, then the child grows up and stars babbling their secrets all over the place and they don’t like it. Id say to them: get a dog instead. You had a child but actually what you needed was a dog, something that would love you and obey you but would never say a word”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“we examine least what has formed us the most, and instead find ourselves driven blindly to re-enact it. Maybe its only in our injuries, he said, that the future can take root”
—Rachel Cusk, Transit
“it seemed to me that most marriages worked in the same way that stories are said to do, through the suspension of disbelief. It wasn’t, in other words, perfection that sustained them so much as the avoidance of certain realities”
—Rachel Cusk, Transit
“The sad fact, she said, is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have become cruel, to ourselves and others, because we believe that ultimately we have no value. What the planets offer, she said, is nothing less than the chance to regain faith in the grandeur of the human: how much more dignity and honor, how much kindness and responsibility and respect, would we bring to our dealings with one another if we believed that each and everyone of us had cosmic importance?”
—Rachel Cusk, Transit
“the ruthless pursuit of profit is counteracted by charity: charity is part of the game, a humanitarian mask hiding the underlying economic exploitation. Developed countries are constantly “helping” underdeveloped ones and so avoiding the key issue: their complicity in and responsibility for the miserable situation of the Third World.”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“But to reclaim agency means first of all accepting our insertion at the level of desire in the remorseless meat grinder of capital. Capital is not something imposed upon us by our despots, it is we who are hooked on the garbage in honey’s sack, unable to kick the habit of returning to the Big Jesus Trashcan for another hit of feel-good junk”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labour is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. ”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“When pop can no longer muster a nihilation of the World, a nihilation of the Possible, then it will only be the ghosts that are worth our time”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“What pop lacks now is the capacity for nihilation, for producing new potentials through the negation of what already exists”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“Romanticism is the dressing-up of Teenage Ontology as an aesthetic cosmology”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“The assumption of bourgeois so-called feminists is that their lives of neurotic bed-hopping “freedom” and Carrie Bradshawing perpetual adolescent equivocation are better than the working-class patter of once getting married young and now having children young, when it is clear that it is just another trap — and not necessarily a more congenial one”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“when culture demands respect, when respect is the appropriate response to culture, you know its either died in its sleep or been killed”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“mourning involves relinquishing the lost object and melancholia entails morbidly holding on”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“Capital — now using nihiliberal rather than neoliberal modes of governance — doesn’t have any solution except to load the young with debt and precarity”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“to live under such instant.demand duress is stress-inducing indeed. Lie becomes a series of panic attacks in the face of never being able to live up to such workplace demands without completely dismantling life itself as distinct from work. The managerial class uses techniques of guilt/loyalty to enforce workers to labour at a moment’s notice, scheduling with less than a few hours or days time, without hope of a raise, without benefits or rewards, and all for a minimum wage”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk
“And for all the bluster about entrepreneurialism, it is remarkable how risk-averse late capitalism’s culture is — there has never been a culture more homogenous and standardized, more repetitive and fear-driven”
— Mark Fisher, K-punk