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...
Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures - Mark Fisher & Matt Colquhoun
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