K-Punk by Mark Fisher

“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year-long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
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”As well as ‘physical’ poverty, there is also an aesthetic poverty, evident to anyone who takes a second look at the dismal vistas of England’s hyper-corporatised high streets. While the rich have material and cultural resources to ‘unplug’ from the dreary banality of these cloned spaces, the poor are far more emedded in them. This embedding in tightly defined media, social and physical environments is in fact a major symptom of aesthetic poverty.”
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”The pervasive sense of slipping into a new Dark Age, of an insidious breakdown of the social contact, generates anxieties that are repressed but resurface in unlikely ways and places. Resistance doesn’t necessarily take the ‘logical’ form of collective activism (unions, left-wing politics); it can be so distorted and imaginatively impoverished by the conditions of capitalism itself, that it expresses itself as, say, the proto-fascist, anti-corporate nostalgia of America’s right-wing militias, or as a sort of hyper-individualistic survivalism.”
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”Adam Harper, one of the most interesting young critics, has made a case for the new culture of micro-innovation, arguing that the kind of music culture Simon (Reynolds) and I are talking about here—defined in terms of scenes organised around generic formulas—is an historical relic, replaced by a culture of a thousand tiny deviations, an ‘infinite music’, in which the temporal recursion that Simon has referred to is not a problem but a resource.”
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”No tragedy now — only spasms of soon-to-be-forgotten outrage, ejaculations of hatred and suffering snacked on like fast food.”
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”Christ’s Example is simply this: it is better to die than to pass on abuse virus or to in any way vindicate the idiot vacuity and stupidity of the World of authority.”
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”Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination.”

-Mark Fisher