Identity Dissolved: A Dive into Rave Culture and Politics

Описание: From interview with Mattie Colquhoun (@xenogothic): From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism & Solarpunk

Mattie Colquhoun (pronounced kuh-hoon), known online as Xenogothic, is a writer and photographer from Hull, UK.

They are best known for continuing the intellectual and cultural legacy of the late Mark Fisher, one of the most influential contemporary cultural theorists and political philosophers, and Mattie’s former teacher at Goldsmiths London in 2017.

Since Fisher’s passing, Mattie has edited his Post-Capitalist Desire lectures, contributed to various translation projects, and written numerous contextual and introductory essays on his work.

Native to the blogosphere, Mattie has since published several books. Their latest,⁠ Narcissus in Bloom⁠ (2023), offers an alternative reading of the selfie, in which they argue that what’s often dismissed as narcissism is, in fact, a symptom of deeper political discontent and a yearning for (self-)transformation.

With Mattie, we dive into Fisher’s vision, particularly his seminal book Capitalist Realism, where he diagnosed the exhaustion and imaginative limits of late stage capitalism, and Acid Communism, his unfinished project that sought to imagine how collective joy, desire, and alternative ways of being might form the basis of a new political horizon.

Link to Xenogothic blog:⁠ https://xenogothic.com/about/⁠

Instagram - solarpunk.manifesto / Music - @simocellmusic / Editing - Xenia Kuznetsova / Visuals - @louise_mscr @tengtenho_ @via_minhu / Studio - Edouard Picard from @lpiparis