Mark Fisher (K-Punk) on Carroll, Kafka, The Situationists and Subversive Architectures

“…only a child can be lucid in Carroll and Kafka’s world — observing the senseless and arbitrary cruelty of adult caprice, whose only alibi is precedent. ‘Things have always been done that way. Don’t you know? How stupid are you?’ “

“…the Situationists and the Surrealists dream a dream deemed to be impossible, conceiving of a social system in which play and reason combine in an exploration of Intensive Now.”

“It’s disastrous that the Situationist insistence upon the ludic has degenerated into a smugonautic celebration of bourgeois circus trickery (juggling and unicylcists as the shock troops of the revolution against Corporate Kapital). You have to reread Ivan Chtcheglov’s astonishing Formulary for a New Urbanism…How could architecture - i.e. the places in which we live - not be an intensely political matter? And why should we live in boring, utilitarian spaces when we could live in grottoes and crooked caverns? ‘A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and conveniences…’ “

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Grant Morrison - Disinfo Lecture

This is one of the wildest ontological rides I’ve been on in years! The video is long (45 minutes), but if you have the time, I can’t recommend watching this enough. If you don’t have time, bookmark it and watch it in segments.

My mind is still trying to integrate some of the things he says…



Grant Morrison - Disinfo Lecture

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