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Mark Fisher, the cultural theorist and music writer also known as k-punk, has died. He was 48.

Niklas Brendborg’s studies about Supernormal Stimuli, how our world is optimized to be addictive as possible in every aspect of our lives (the natural place for the attention economy to reach) has desensitized us and left humanity lonelier and less understanding of one another was published this year and felt about as zietgeisty as any other... See more

My only comment here is really that I find the domination of the privately educated over the last two years on mass musical culture (last year brat and this year Geese) just fucking dull. Geese make perfectly decent music - I think I enjoyed their record more than brat - but they come from a boring, moneyed place and the success of their white male... See more

After all, it is not public money being redistributed. Players’ spiralling wages are a consequence of the very market dynamics that, until last year’s bank crisis, were held to be sacrosanct.

It told us that utopia is impossible because there is no such thing as society, only individuals pursuing their own interests.

For that reason, this is definitely not the time to recline into the leftist version of capitalist realism, the defeatist counterpart to the Bullingdon club’s bullishness