Posts tagged Studio ZA/UM
The Spectre of a World that Could Be Free: On Acid Communism (Fisher's Ghosts, part 6)
The Spectre of a World that Could Be Free: On Acid Communism (Fisher's Ghosts, part 6)

The book that Mark Fisher was working on at the time of his death was to be entitled Acid Communism. Its introduction is available in the K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher. There has been a lot of speculation about this subject since his passing, especially in conjunction with the last course that Fisher was going to teach on “Post-Capitalist Desire." The general theory is that Acid Communism was his name for a future political project, marrying the psychedelia of the 1960s to Marxist thinking,

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Analysis, Commentary, Fisher's Ghosts, Written by: CameronCameron SummersAcid Communism, Mark Fisher, The Hauntological, The Wondrous, The Apostatic, William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops, Stuart Mills, Daoism, Matt Colquhoun, The Temptations, Psychedelic Shack, psychedelia, Disco Elysium, Studio ZA/UM, Waypoint Radio, Sun Ra, Space is the Place, Kodwo Eshun, Weird Studies, Gnosticism, A Tribe Called Red, John Trudell, Animism, Communism, Popular ModernismComment
To Breathe the Sacred and Terrible Air: On Disco Elysium by ZA/UM
To Breathe the Sacred and Terrible Air: On Disco Elysium by ZA/UM

This game is, of all things, a police procedural RPG with a surprising depth of thought, as well as deep political and philosophical consideration; it pulls no punches, and layers a naturalistic and emotionally effecting story over the top of a thoroughly-drawn and not-entirely-realistic setting. That’s the thing: when someone can pull of Naturalistic Un-Realism, I sit up and take notice — and I think everyone should, too.

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Game Reviews, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersDisco Elysium, Studio ZA/UM, Robert Kurvitz, Weird Fiction, R.S. Thomas, ReflectionsComment