K-Punk

[luka]

ah!

 

[mind_philip]

Incredibly, the same author argues elsewhere that the popularity of mock-Tudor architecture reveals a hidden English desire to return to pre-reformation union with Roman Catholicism. "That this period is writ large on the roofs and gables across the land thus indicates both yearning for home and the wound of homesickness itself." https://catholicherald.co.uk/in-defence-of-mock-tudor-a-very-english-style/

 

[version]

Read the first couple of chapters of The Weird and the Eerie earlier. Think I prefer him in this mode to politics mode, although he slips in a mention of capitalism in the intro.

The definitions he sets out for the two are pretty solid, imo. I rewatched Alien recently and his conception of 'The Eerie' is exactly what I was feeling about the planet and the derelict: Why is there something here when there should be nothing? Why is there nothing here when there should be something?

 

[shakahislop]

Read the first couple of chapters of The Weird and the Eerie earlier. Think I prefer him in this mode to politics mode, although he slips in a mention of capitalism in the intro.

The definitions he sets out for the two are pretty solid, imo. I rewatched Alien recently and his conception of 'The Eerie' is exactly what I was feeling about the planet and the derelict: Why is there something here when there should be nothing? Why is there nothing here when there should be something?

the core of the appeal of his writing for me was the integration of politics and theory into music and tv reviews. i've never read anyone else who could do it as well as that.

 

[poetix]

"... an odd antechamber with a TV set on a table which always and only played a VHS of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II," sounds like your personal Gitmo.

Royalist goon cave

 

[vimothy]

The young conservatives are trying to co-opt Mark https://thecritic.co.uk/Ghosts-of-British-life/

many years ago nick land wrote a post on hyperstation criticising mark Fisher, now well known and much remarked on, called "transcendental miserablism". thing that always struck me was that you could make the exact same arg about the new right as the contemporary left - absolutely defeated in their own minds by liberal capitalism with no idea about how to rectify it

 

[version]

I don't get the impression liberals are happy either.

 

[mind_philip]

Read the first couple of chapters of The Weird and the Eerie earlier. Think I prefer him in this mode to politics mode, although he slips in a mention of capitalism in the intro.

The definitions he sets out for the two are pretty solid, imo. I rewatched Alien recently and his conception of 'The Eerie' is exactly what I was feeling about the planet and the derelict: Why is there something here when there should be nothing? Why is there nothing here when there should be something?

Reminds me of submechanophobia (fear of submerged manmade objects) - a name I was recently able to put to an anxiety I've felt all my life.

 

[mind_philip]

many years ago nick land wrote a post on hyperstation criticising mark Fisher, now well known and much remarked on, called "transcendental miserablism". thing that always struck me was that you could make the exact same arg about the new right as the contemporary left - absolutely defeated in their own minds by liberal capitalism with no idea about how to rectify it

end of history, innit

 

[version]

Reminds me of submechanophobia (fear of submerged manmade objects) - a name I was recently able to put to an anxiety I've felt all my life.

There are online communities based around that, people swapping images of oil rig struts and deep sea pipelines.

 

[vimothy]

end of history === we are out of ideas

 

[mind_philip]

There are online communities based around that, people swapping images of oil rig struts and deep sea pipelines.

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time on Reddit looking at terrifying images of shipwrecks. I wrote something about it, but won't be so gauche as to post it here.

 

[luka]

end of history === we are out of ideas

i had an idea to do bad tortures on @Corpsey

 

[version]

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time on Reddit looking at terrifying images of shipwrecks. I wrote something about it, but won't be so gauche as to post it here.

They exert the same sense of fascination k-punk talks about in Lovecraft, at least for me. Something unsettling yet compelling. Same goes for 'liminal spaces' or Dragan Bibin's paintings.

 

[mind_philip]

They exert the same sense of fascination k-punk talks about in Lovecraft, at least for me. Something unsettling yet compelling. Same goes for 'liminal spaces' or Dragan Bibin's paintings.

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Prinz Eugen is my favorite. There are photos of people snorkeling by the half-submerged wreck that I can't look at without the feeling that 20,000 tons of rusty steel is suddenly looming behind me.

 

[MATT MAson]

I had no idea K-punk was no longer with us until yesterday. Very sad to hear. I'm really glad to see Dissensus is still doing its thing. ❤️

 

[version]

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time on Reddit looking at terrifying images of shipwrecks. I wrote something about it, but won't be so gauche as to post it here.

 

[mind_philip]

Have you ever seen a diagram of how much of the prow is actually under the mud?

 

[mind_philip]

 

[sus]

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time on Reddit looking at terrifying images of shipwrecks. I wrote something about it, but won't be so gauche as to post it here.

dm