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*Unlocked* Riley's Commie Book Club: Mark Fisher

TRASHFUTURE

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The Metaphysics of Crackle, Afrofuturism and Hontology

This is a lot of the psychological and cultural terrain where you could say the battle between popular modernism and postmodernism get played out. So this passage is not actually from K-punk, but from an essay called the metaphysics of crackle, Afrofuturism and Hontology by Fisher. One function of Hontology is to keep insisting that there are futures beyond postmodernity's terminal time. When the present is given up on the future, we must listen for the relics of the future and the unactivated potentials of the past.

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