Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and the Eerie' Revisited with Matt Colquhoun

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Step through the oddly placed door and enter the world of the weird and the eerie. In this episode, we dive into Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie with author and photographer Matt Colquhoun (xenogothic.com). Matt is the Author of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher. He has also edited the compilation final lecture series entitled Postcapitalist Desire. All of the titles mentioned are out on Repeater Books. In the episode we mention Freud, Deleuze, Kafka, Lovecraft, Lukacs, David Lynch and more.
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[@tonybababoni]

Thank you for all your amazing work on these topics-being an undergraduate student listening to these videos blows me away, tbh. I hope to be able to communicate these ideas like you one day ❤️🙏🏻

[@jakobson219]

Fantastic podcast, learned a lot. And a big thank you to your guest who brought both wisdom and emotion to the table.

[@dethkon]

This is the last Fisher book I haven’t read. I’m really looking forward to it.

[@adam_ie]

Thank you for these videos. I absolutely love Mark Fisher's work and these interviews are incredibly insightful.

[@shazaaaaaam]

this is my favorite kind of subject matter to have interrupted by advertisements

[@zombiiination]

ad blocker ;)

[@Ibnwhitetrashabdullah]

You can buy your way out of that burden as well. Capitalism and consumerism really can solve all our problems! 😮

[@jero4059]

My favourite hypnagogic channel.

[@harsht17]

amazing, i was literally thinking about how i need to get around to reading this book and saw this as first thing on my recommendations

[@ryanbenson4610]

Great podcast. A lot of fun to listen to

[@PulsatingShadow]

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

[@the_famous_reply_guy]

It's reasonable to say a universal symbolic language exists and psychoanalysis, philosophy, poetry have cast thousands of molds of symbolic meaning . We lack objective coherence so we never understand each other or ourselves, we are the other and the other is us. Perfect communication meaning error free understanding which poets would say is love.

[@lucifervibes]

Great convo and l o v e the sounds : )

[@AcidHorizon]

Thank you!!

[@Portents-Magic-imagination]

The book haunts.

[@jeremyliebenthal9916]

already liked it before even pressing play lmao

[@linasgabrielaitis6766]

you mentioned how deleuze talks about representations- where could i read more on that?

[@AcidHorizon]

Great question. When I first came to Deleuze's work years ago, it was something that initially eluded me as being of primary importance. It's basically EVERYWHERE in his writing, even if it anti-representationalism is functioning in the background. The essay to start you out might be 'Plato and the Simulacrum' (It is available online and it is also found in the appendix of The Logic of Sense). D&G's book on Kafka is an important note in their anti-representationalism. ('Justice is desire and desire alone [not just propositions about justice, etc.]). The recent episode on the image of thought we did brushes up against Deleuze's anti-representationalism as well.

[@williamhunt5753]

@@AcidHorizon can I just add: his essay "How do we recognize structuralism" also thinks about representation through this relation between genesis and structure in structuralism->post-structuralism. gets into his stuff about calculus in D+R

[@jeremyliebenthal9916]

I recommend the Conclusion of Difference & Repetition. It’s a fantastic distillation of lots of the ideas throughout the book

[@WarMomPT]

Hearing Matt talk about this remix of Belly of the Beast using self-checkout sounds is really fascinating - what's the name of Fisher's mix of Belly of the Beast? Searching him and K-Punk with BotB only brings up - understandably - Fisher's writing in relation to the original. EDIT: found his soundcloud :)

[@andrewparkinson1332]

I am subscribing for the name alone. Thanks algo.

[@AcidHorizon]

Welcome aboard!

[@QEsposito510]

IF YOU’RE REALLY ABOUT THAT ANTICAPITALIST HORIZON, ACCEPT WEIRD THOUGHTS AS CURRENCY FOR YOUR PATREON.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Ah, please make sure everyone works on their mic technique - the plosives are brutal, makes it really hard to tolerate listening to this on headphones

[@Dreadwinner]

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[@ludviglidstrom6924]

It sounds like you are saying “Marx” instead of “Mark” a lot of the time!