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Every so often, I’ll notice references to VNS Matrix in writing today, often alongside Donna Haraway’s 1985 Cyborg Manifesto (I see Sadie Plant mentioned less often, though she’s every bit as relevant; her 1997 book Zeros + Ones unearthed a complex historical connection between women and machines). Part of why I think these ideas on gender and technology continue to interest us is that the future they envisioned hasn’t happened yet. Writing plays an interesting role in this issue; Haraway explicitly framed ‘cyborg writing’ as charting a path forward, saying that it’s “about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.” ....
The ghosts of Mark Fisher How the cultural critic, four years after his death, became one of the most influential thinkers and writers of our times. When the cultural critic and theorist Mark Fisher took his own life on 13 January 2017 at the age of 48, he was a third of a way through delivering a lecture series titled “Postcapitalist Desire”, which he had devised as part of an MA course in contemporary art theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. Fisher began the first lecture by playing three clips, the last from a 2011 episode of Have I Got News for You. In the video, the former Tory MP Louise Mensch – “I can’t believe she’s called ‘Mensch’; it’s like a daft Martin Amis character, isn’t it?” Fisher comments – claims that Occupy protesters were undermining their critique of capitalism by buying coffee from Starbucks and tweeting on their iPhones: “You can’t be against capitalism and then take everything that it provides.” ....