Acid Horizon Mark Fisher: Solidarity at the Rave - A Conversation with Natasha and Matt
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Aug 21, 2021 Matt Colquhoun and Natasha Eves join the podcast to discuss Mark Fisher's essay on the politics of British rave culture. They explore topics such as the power of music events in creating community, Fisher's impact on teaching and academia, contradictions of individualism in a working-class context, challenging capitalist modes through rave nights, and the healing power of collective experiences in rave culture.
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Turning Grief Into Parties
- The 4K punk nights grew from students turning grief into communal music gatherings after Mark Fisher's death.
- Natasha and Matt describe how parties transformed institutional mourning into living, evolving memorials.
From Memorial Circles To Club Nights
- After Fisher's death students moved from formal memorial meetings into informal parties and club nights to process grief together.
- Matt recalls those gatherings created healing friendships and re-shaped how they remembered Mark.
Theory As Practice
- The club nights enacted Fisher's theory rather than treating theory as an instruction manual.
- Putting on a rave became a practical way to realise the solidarities his texts describe.