Antipyrine og Passive/Aggressive udgiver Mark Fisher “Kapitalistisk realisme” for første gang på dansk. Oversættelse af Mathias Ruthner med efterord af Macon Holt. Mark Fisher (1968-2017), også kendt som “k-punk”, var en engelsk kulturteoretiker, kritiker, forfatter og underviser. Hans bidrag til tidsskrifter kunne regelmæssigt læses i bl.a. Sight & Sound, frieze, New Statesman og The Wire, hvor han bl.a. var redaktør. Han underviste på Goldsmiths, ...

Macon Holt “On Popular Music” is the latest addition to the Passive/Aggressive small prints series on contemporary music theory and sonic fiction. In this series:Macon Holt “On Popular Music” (2021)Pauline Oliveros “Bryd stilheden” (2021)Steve Goodman “Sonisk krigsførelse” (2020)Éliane Radigue “Tiden er uden betydning” (2019)“K-Punk: Or how Mark Fisher intensifies the political possibilities of music” (2019) In On Popular Music (a title appropriated from ...

The eighth annual, international Passive/Aggressive zine is set to be released in November as part of the program for Gong Tomorrow 2019. The zine opens with a critical essay on Brian Eno’s notion of the scenius from a materialist perspective and arguing instead for Kodwo Eshun’s conception of Interpretative Communities. Unlike the scenius, which foregrounds the capacity of this social form to produce ...

By Mandus Ridefelt When Charli XCX released “Charli” in September 2019, it was her third full-length album and her first after the 2016-17 mixtapes, “Vroom Vroom”, “Number 1 Angel” and “Pop 2″, that had defined her as an artist”. Particularly, the ingeniously titled “Pop 2”, which established Charli XCX as a central figure to what commonly was referred to as the “future of pop”. ...

“K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)”, edited by Darren Ambrose, Repeater Books, 2018 – Essay by Macon Holt. Mark Fisher was the most important music critic of his generation. And in some ways, he continues to be so despite taking his own life over two years ago. I think one of the main reasons for this was that, for Mark, ...

Af Emil Grarup – Photo courtesy of Repeater Books. Det var ikke indtil for ganske nyligt, at jeg stiftede bekendtskab med den britiske kulturteoretiker og musikskribent Mark Fisher (1968-2017), også kendt som k-punk. Jeg læste det norske kulturtidskrift Vagants nekrolog i forbindelse med hans nylige død og stødte her første gang på begrebet ‘hauntology’ i forbindelse med hans bog “Ghosts of My ...