xenogoth
looking for an exit
hi all. doing my periodic pop by the thread lol....
poetix and i made up. to be honest, the whole publishing-a-book-and-then-pouring-over-the-critical-response-in-my-lockdown-bubble sent me totally west and i'm really not proud of how i handled a lot of stuff -- here or elsewhere. i was not ready for the existential shock of putting out something so personal about someone so contentious but highly regarded and dealing with the consequences. i was expecting closure but got a load of other fingers stuck through the wound instead. i was naive, really.
anyyway, it's been a very weird few months since then with a lot less time spent online! that being said, i think there remains another mark out there who remains underappreciated and who falls between the gaps of his better known texts. i'll be continuing by vendetta to raise that mark up but tying that to my own experiences from three years ago is something i'm happy to leave behind.
re: the postcapitalist desire lectures that i saw got posted about in here -- the recordings have been floating around since Mark died but it felt like a good time to put them together and out in the world. they're not just a cash grab -- and all royalties go to mark's family anyway. i think they're important, if only because a lot of the assumptions made about what Mark was going to do with Acid Communism are made quite explicit in there. i've been quite open -- and gobshitey -- about how personally mind-numbing the whole Acid Corbynism thing was, mostly because it excavated everything that had informed Acid Communism and that Mark was talking about before his death, and then filled the husk with soft left cringe. that's an understandable sequence of events considering the phrase was a more or less empty signifier after the introduction was published but, hopefully, these lectures will rectify that.
it also makes good, i hope, on what poetix and i were arguing about in the first place a few months back. the introduction i've written connects the lectures to previous articles and blogposts Mark had written and which are already out in the world, and shows how it is very easy to track the development of his thinking after Capitalist Realism and get a sense of what Acid Communism was going to argue next if you know where to look. just a straight up archaeology that seems to have been inadvertently buried beneath the popular understanding of his "hits". i hope it'll provide the sort of clarity and objectivity that people wanted from my book about him but didn't find.
poetix and i made up. to be honest, the whole publishing-a-book-and-then-pouring-over-the-critical-response-in-my-lockdown-bubble sent me totally west and i'm really not proud of how i handled a lot of stuff -- here or elsewhere. i was not ready for the existential shock of putting out something so personal about someone so contentious but highly regarded and dealing with the consequences. i was expecting closure but got a load of other fingers stuck through the wound instead. i was naive, really.
anyyway, it's been a very weird few months since then with a lot less time spent online! that being said, i think there remains another mark out there who remains underappreciated and who falls between the gaps of his better known texts. i'll be continuing by vendetta to raise that mark up but tying that to my own experiences from three years ago is something i'm happy to leave behind.
re: the postcapitalist desire lectures that i saw got posted about in here -- the recordings have been floating around since Mark died but it felt like a good time to put them together and out in the world. they're not just a cash grab -- and all royalties go to mark's family anyway. i think they're important, if only because a lot of the assumptions made about what Mark was going to do with Acid Communism are made quite explicit in there. i've been quite open -- and gobshitey -- about how personally mind-numbing the whole Acid Corbynism thing was, mostly because it excavated everything that had informed Acid Communism and that Mark was talking about before his death, and then filled the husk with soft left cringe. that's an understandable sequence of events considering the phrase was a more or less empty signifier after the introduction was published but, hopefully, these lectures will rectify that.
it also makes good, i hope, on what poetix and i were arguing about in the first place a few months back. the introduction i've written connects the lectures to previous articles and blogposts Mark had written and which are already out in the world, and shows how it is very easy to track the development of his thinking after Capitalist Realism and get a sense of what Acid Communism was going to argue next if you know where to look. just a straight up archaeology that seems to have been inadvertently buried beneath the popular understanding of his "hits". i hope it'll provide the sort of clarity and objectivity that people wanted from my book about him but didn't find.