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Event
- Title:
- Militant Dysphoria: What are the politics of disaffection?
- When:
- 30.09.2009 14.00 h - 18.00 h
- Where:
- Goldsmiths, University of London - New Cross
- Category:
- Politics/Social Action
Description
We have been told by the living that the idea of a vital world is that of comfort and warmth. Dominic Fox assures us that this is not the case. With an unparalleled militant efficiency, Cold World blackens the lines between poetics and politics, music and negative resistance. It is a haunting sermon from the world of the dead exhorting the living to revolt in the name of a life whose vitality has been disenchanted by coldness and whose sacredness has been profaned by nigredo. - Reza Negarestani, Author of Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
Dominic Fox's timely and important Cold World pinpoints the fundamental issue underlying contemporary debate about the possibility of revolutionary politics in a culture suffused by paralysing despondency. Drawing on a remarkable array of sources from Coleridge and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Xasthur and Ulrike Meinhof, Fox explores the necessary yet apparently contradictory link between refusal and revolution. While refusal without revolution perpetuates the very condition it would negate, revolution without refusal quickly lapses into phantasmatic utopianism. The quandaries of this particular dialectic have never been as lucidly charted as they are here. - Ray Brassier, Author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction
Featuring:
Dominic Fox
Nathan Brown
Mark Fisher
Nick Srnicek
James Trafford
Alex Williams
An event to discuss some of the issues raised by Domininc Fox's Cold World: The aesthetics of dejection and the politics of militant dysphoria, due to be published by zer0 at the end of September. What is meant by 'militant dysphoria', and in what ways can the concept help us move beyond the impasses of contemporary politics? How might disaffection be converted into militancy? What political potentials are there in dysphoric music such as Black Metal? The event will also explore the relationship between politics and Speculative Realism.
This will not be a formal academic conference. Instead, it will follow the pattern set by the Weird events at Goldsmiths and the recent UEL symposium on the hardcore continuum. There will be short semi-formal presentations by speakers, but the emphasis will be on discussion of concepts rather than on presenting of papers etc.
The event is free but anyone interested in attending should register with me (k_punk99[AT]hotmail.com). Places are limited. In addition, if anyone would like to give a semi-formal presentation, please let me know.
Venue
- Venue:
- Goldsmiths, University of London - Website
- Street:
- Lewisham Way
- ZIP:
- SE14 6NW
- City:
- New Cross
- State:
- London
Description
Ground-breaking, challenging research puts Goldsmiths at the forefront of developments in fields like creativity, culture, and digital technologies.
Phone: 020 7919 7171
Bus: 21, 36, 53, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 321, 343, 436, 453.
Rail: New Cross Station/New Cross Gate
From New Cross stationFor the Richard Hoggart and Rutherford Buildings
- Cross New Cross Road at the pedestrian traffic lights into Amersham Road, keeping to the right hand pavement.
- Follow the road round to the right into Parkfield Road.
- Cross at the pedestrian lights and Richard Hoggart Building is ahead of you. Rutherford Building is to your right.
For Deptford Town Hall Building and Ben Pimlott Building
- Walk along New Cross Road, past the first set of pedestrian lights.
- Cross over Pagnell Street.
- Continue walking and then cross by the next set of pedestrian lights.
- Turn right and walk along New Cross Road, cross Laurie Grove (on the left).
- Deptford Town Hall Building is ahead on your left.
- Ben Pimlott Building is in St James which is the next road on the left.
Turn left out of the station and cross the road at the pedestrian lights.
- Deptford Town Hall Building is to your left. For the Ben Pimlott Building, turn right and take the first left into St James. You will see the entrance through on the left hand side, just before the nursery school.
For the Richard Hoggart Building
- Once you have crossed the road, turn left and walk along New Cross Road, past Laurie Grove on to Lewisham Way.
- Walk past the glass-fronted Rutherford Building, and cross over Dixon Road (on the right).
- Richard Hoggart Building is on the right immediately after this
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