K Punk: classic or dud?

KP deeply disliked sebald, so no (but yes)

unless you're familiar with the artists' hallmarks, it won't likely be clear whose music is playing when

as a way of glossing "it all sounds exactly the same" this made me lol a bit

You're right, I hadn't remembered that. From the Wire:

Rob Turner writes of Mark and his hauntological partner-in-crime Justin Barton:

The pair’s wonky tour guide, shifting from nerdy digressions on Brian Eno to enthusiastic riffs on TV horror shows, is a reply to WG Sebald’s celebrated study of the same coastline The Rings of Saturn. In a 2011 essay for Sight & Sound, Fisher described that book as a trudge through Suffolk that entirely failed to look at the place, offering instead “mittel-brow miserabilism, a stock disdain, in which the human settlements are routinely dismissed as shabby”. Here, in apparent solidarity with the humans trapped in this realm, the narrator is gripped by the features of the landscape, reading lost poems of late capitalism in the stacked iron containers of Felixstowe terminal.

I agree that Sebald's Suffolk 'trudge' wasn't about Suffolk or that coast per se, but that wasn't really Sebald's point to begin with. Either way, I'm looking forward to this.

He is kinda right. Austerlitz > Rings of Saturn in my book. Though I must say, after spending a few days in Great Yarmouth this summer, it was kinda funny reading his description of Lowestoft. But also really harsh.

Harsh is ok, though.

Just listened to the record. It wasn't off putting - it was rather special to hear Mark's voice in this way - but as a spoken word album, well, it is what it is, and nothing more: you hear it once, enjoy it, but probably will never listen to it again. I hate that this is how it goes, but it is how it goes.

I've been really enjoying On Vanishing Land and have listened to it repeatedly. It reminded me a bit of Patrick Keiller's films, Robinson in Space particularly.

RIP Mark Fisher on the anniversary of his death. I taught Capitalist Realism this fall, and was pleasantly surprised how much students connected with Fisher's ability to connect the ongoing crisis of capitalism with depression and anxiety. He saw something.https://t.co/vONLSBLuSA

— Jason Read (@Unemployedneg) January 13, 2020

I liked him as a lecturer.

https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/mark-fisher-blogosphere/

:(

man, really feels like these trajectories have sped right up pic.twitter.com/j2ZV0G2ESf

— michael (@Sisyphusa) July 6, 2020

nina power is now writing in the telegraph about cancel culture

lol, didn't click yr link before posting

honestly fisher would have been on her side

this isnt a big development, nina has been on youtube with some very dodgy people over the last couple of years, she always has that look on her face where she's just said something a bit naughty,

only a finite amount of books you can read in a lifetime, and an infinite amount of tedious and horrible writers!

^^^ truth.

Still working my way through “Capitalist Realism,” so grateful for his provocations. https://t.co/N19DxsR7Dp

— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) July 12, 2020

https://crackmagazine.net/2023/01/kode9-releases-previously-unheard-conversation-with-mark-fisher/

Kode9 has shared a previously unheard recording of a conversation between himself and the late Mark Fisher, 6 years after his passing. The recording is from a conversation between the producer and theorist from 1998.

According to a note shared on Kode9’s Instagram, the conversation “was the first of a series of recorded conversations whose aim was to explicate/clarify/transmit the embryonic mythos.”

He continued: “Due to the mnemonic fade and/or nonrecovery of other minidiscs, it is unclear whether subsequent recordings existed”.

https://thequietus.com/news/tariq-goddard-repeater-zero-books-mark-fisher-statement/

Tariq Goddard the co-founder and publisher of Zero & Repeater books is stepping down from both titles today, it has been announced.

Goddard, an author and tQ contributor, founded Zero in 2009 with Mark Fisher to combat “anti-intellectualism” in modern culture and went on to publish key works by Eugene Thacker and Owen Hatherly, as well as the groundbreaking Capitalist Realism by Fisher himself.

The pair left Zero in 2014 to co-found Repeater with Watkins Media alongside Al Niven and Tam Shlaim, where they published more notable work by the likes of Dawn Foster, Robert Barry and David Stubbs. In 2021 Watkins bought Zero, bringing it back under the same ownership as Repeater.

In a statement released via Watkins this morning, Goddard says: “Repeater and Zero Books are publishing imprints that have become a culture. That culture will endure longer than the individuals that helped bring it about, and although I will be leaving the imprints, it is impossible to leave what they have created. Success in business is easily measured in sales and exposure, but influencing a block of time, registers in a more general and less personal way. The strength and influence of Repeater and Zero Books is felt as much in the publishing ether, and in the creation of our own community and niche, as it is in market share or famous names. Both imprints followed the simple brief of trying to discover what was happening, and create it if it could not be found. After seventeen years I go with the deepest gratitude to the friends that contributed to that process, who worked for us and with me, and to all of you that supported our titles in numbers we hardly dreamed of in 2007/8.

“As a writer I have never thought of our, or any authors, as exalted beings, despite sharing the motivation to try and and attain such heights in print, but I believe I have understood them better than I do other people, and I will miss them all, certainly more than some of them I have crossed swords with might suppose. It is always surprising when different types of author have recourse to use exactly the same phrase, especially when it is not a particularly writerly one, and in the last few weeks that has been to thank me for ‘taking a chance on’ them.

“I want to thank them all for taking a chance on me, and to you, our readership, for taking a chance on us. Goodnight and joy be with you all.”