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

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The Demise of Communism and the Disappearance of Modernism

Fisher's project is essentially to resurrect modernism as a way of understanding. To think about sort of modernism in any kind of real sense, think about Frank Lloyd Wright or Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists. Fisher: Modernism had its own problems with elitism. Theodora Dornau hated popular culture as something stupefying versus the potential transcendental power that it could have.

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