Book Review: K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from 2004-2016 edited by Darren Ambrose

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Book Review| June 02 2019 Book Review: K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from 2004-2016 edited by Darren Ambrose K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from 2004–2016, edited by Darren Ambrose, Repeater Books, 2018. 814 pp./$29.95 (sb). Max L. Feldman Max L. Feldman Max L. Feldman is a writer based in Vienna, Austria. He has taught philosophy at Heythrop College (University of London) and the University of Roehampton, London. He writes a monthly art column for the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, New York, and is a contributing editor at the journal Public Seminar. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Max L. Feldman is a writer based in Vienna, Austria. He has taught philosophy at Heythrop College (University of London) and the University of Roehampton, London. He writes a monthly art column for the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, New York, and is a contributing editor at the journal Public Seminar. Afterimage (2019) 46 (2): 91–96. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.462012 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Max L. Feldman; Book Review: K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from 2004-2016 edited by Darren Ambrose. Afterimage 2 June 2019; 46 (2): 91–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.462012 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search A full history of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) is yet to be written.1 Less a formal research group than a short-lived student-run collective, CCRU was founded in the University of Warwick’s (UK) philosophy department in 1995 around the work of Sadie Plant and Nick Land. Although officially existing for just over two years, CCRU’s unusual studies combining the thought of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari with cybernetics, science fiction, rave culture, and occult studies have influenced trends like speculative realism and “accelerationism.” Among the CCRU circle was cultural theorist Mark Fisher (1968–2017). Fisher’s collected writings are now published in a vast 814-page volume. The name K-Punk alone reflects Fisher’s interest in cyberpunk literature and post-punk music, both part of CCRU’s investigations.2 As he explains in an early post, “Why K?,” CCRU writers used “K” as “a libidinally preferable substitution” for the capture of the term “cyber”... You do not currently have access to this content.