Book Description | Before the Christmas break of 2016, Mark Fisher gave his students at Goldsmiths University the fifth of fifteen lectures he had decided on himself. No one expected that the fifth would be the last. The course was tragically interrupted when the British blogger and theorist (1968- 2017) ended his life, leaving his book “Communism of Hallucinogenic Pills” as an unfinished embryo.
This book includes those recent lectures, in which Fisher began by questioning the meaning of “post-capitalism,” and continued by tracing the relationship between desire and capitalism, stopping at Freud, Marcuse, Lukacs, and Lyotard. We hear Fisher's voice, desperate at times, and searching for hope at times, recalling the legacy of counterculture from the 1970s, and thinking about the specter of a world that could have been free. |