Frozen Warnings: A Playlist
Author | Eugene Thacker
Repeater asked me to create a playlist as a soundtrack for my book Infinite Resignation, published this year. To be honest, I don’t have the energy to write elaborate exegeses for each bespoke selection detailing its rarified nuances and subtleties. So I simply listed music that I’ve been listening to
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“Communist Realism”, by Mark Fisher
Author | Mark Fisher
Today marks nine years since the publication of Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, a concept and work that he would apply and build upon in his analysis of culture and politics thereafter. Summed up briefly as “both a belief and an attitude … that capitalism is the only viable
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BLACK FRIDAY SALE! 50% off selected titles
We’re offering 50% off selected titles in our Black Friday Sale! Check out the titles below: The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space Owen Hatherley “Daffodils for Wordsworth. Deprivation for Larkin. A trashed tower block surrounded by a toxic landscape pocked with rust-pitted Ladas in a forgotten oblast 2,000 miles from
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“Fear and Misery in Neoliberal Britain”, by Mark Fisher
Author | Mark Fisher
On the week we publish K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher, we republish this k-punk post “Fear and Misery in Neoliberal Britain”. Originally published in 2010, its “compressed and condensed” experiences of life under capitalist realism will still resonate today. The passage I’ve pasted below — the introduction
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Competition: Win our Post-Soviet Space Bundle!
To celebrate the launch of Owen Hatherley’s The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in Post-Soviet Space we’re giving away a bundle of books on architecture and the history of the Soviet Union. One person will win a copy of The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space, Douglas Murphy’s Nincompooppolis: The Follies of
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Tariq Goddard on Jean Baudrillard and the 1980s
In this quarter’s edition of Spike Art Magazine, Repeater publisher Tariq Goddard discusses why Jean Baudrillard is the key thinker of the 1980s. By the 80s Jean Baudrillard appeared to want to interpret the world in different ways and not to change it. Having already abandoned the role of philosopher
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