Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Mark Fisher
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Monochromatic Intensities
Monochromatic Intensities is an ongoing photographic and textual exploration of post-socialist Hungary, examining how the material textures of everyday life—its infrastructures, monuments, industrial remnants and overlooked spaces—continue to shape perception, memory and political imagination. Developed through repeated visits to the same locations over changing seasons, the project approaches photography not as a means of documenting…
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On Somnambulism and Structural Causality
The dominant tradition of ideological critique has struggled with this problem since at least Mannheim, who understood ideology as a kind of socially conditioned distortion, a partial perspective mistaken for a total one. The correction was, in principle, available: the free-floating intellectual. Marx’s own formulations oscillate between ideology as inverted image and ideology as material…
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Dreamwalking off the Cliff
Consider this question: how do you know you are not dreaming right now? When you are immersed in a dream, everything feels real, until—a moment of lucidity breaks the spell. You say, “Oh, I am in fact dreaming”. But what guarantees that you are not dreaming right at this moment? You might point to consistencies,…
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Hegel Is Dead, and We Have Killed Him
This intervention diagnosticates the contemporary domestication of critical negativity by algorithmic infrastructure. It traces a genealogy of the Promethean impulse—from the theological dogmatism of 19th-century Russian Hegelianism and Nikolai Fedorov’s Cosmism to its monumentalization under Soviet Brutalism —in order to contrast it with the frictionless, predictive engineering of late capitalism. Ultimately, it investigates what thought…
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Expressions In-Between Time
To the depressed person, this statement might seem phantasmagorically counterintuitive. In the depressed state, the depressed person perceives time as, as Kronic argues further in the essay, a “a dead grey time in which nothing can possibly happen”, a sort of inescapable limbo between productive time and a chosen non-productive expenditure, In fact, depression expends…
Hyperspekulation 