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

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Popular Modernism and the Search for Spock

Mark Fisher: Desire is not some vitalistic energy which will spontaneously emerge once bodies are freed from institutions. At the moment, our desire is manipulated by capital's army of PR branding and advertising specialists. Popular modernism retains the Promethean desire of modernism but locates it in the popular rather than the elite. The production of culture, art, visions of society, or of the future, whether positive,. Whether literally or by implication through criticism and demonstrating the weird or the new.

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