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A review by foundeasily
K-Punk: Politics by Mark Fisher
5.0
This is only a selection of the much larger collection, but it's all that is available on audiobook at the moment. I'm reading the rest but these selections, in large part, focus on the politics of early 21st Century England (and occasionally beyond). It was somewhat elucidatory, insofar as I wasn't tremendously knowledgeable about many of the subjects but it's also, likely, the subject matter I am least interested in Mark's writings on.
That said, this collection also contains a few standouts that made it, even if it were a standalone, worthwhile: 'No One is Bored, Everything is Boring', 'For Now, Our Desire is Nameless', 'Anti-Therapy', and the concluding unfinished (but still easily comprehensible, only missing things like stray adjectives or descriptors in most cases) 'Manequin Challenge' and 'Acid Communism' (the intended introduction to his next book). Those pieces make me abundantly sad that we're left with these sorts of extraordinary odds and ends, rather than the further work that would more fully realize them into a more cogent whole.
Fully expecting the full collection to get the full ***** but this gets just ****
That said, this collection also contains a few standouts that made it, even if it were a standalone, worthwhile: 'No One is Bored, Everything is Boring', 'For Now, Our Desire is Nameless', 'Anti-Therapy', and the concluding unfinished (but still easily comprehensible, only missing things like stray adjectives or descriptors in most cases) 'Manequin Challenge' and 'Acid Communism' (the intended introduction to his next book). Those pieces make me abundantly sad that we're left with these sorts of extraordinary odds and ends, rather than the further work that would more fully realize them into a more cogent whole.
Fully expecting the full collection to get the full ***** but this gets just ****