Episode #2: Matt Colquhoun – Mark Fisher and The Lost Futures Pt. 1
This episode of The Archipelago features the first of two conversations with Matt Colquhoun, in which he discusses Mark Fisher’s trajectory from the experimental counterculture of the CCRU lab in the mid-90s to his pessimistic take on Capitalist Realism.
He also talks about the concept of “Egress” in practice: how Fisher’s passing affected his community, which is finding new potentialities in his writings under the presence of his absence.
In his book “Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher,” author and photographer Matt Colquhoun elaborates on his former teacher’s later ideas, tragically interrupted by Fisher’s untimely passing in January 2017. He would later edit and introduce Fisher’s unfinished final lectures, now published under the title “Post Capitalist Desire.” In his final days, Fisher moved away from his initial diagnosis of a standstill in political and cultural imagination that he termed “Capitalist Realism,” towards seeking a way out through a project he outlined as “Acid Communism.”
Tracklist
Saba Alizadeh, “Ladan Dead End (Kamancheh Version)”
Space Afrika, “Where Is Pt. 2”
Burial, “Ghost Hardware”