Like all of Moore’s work, ‘V for Vendetta’ is considerably less than the sum of its parts. Mark Fisher Read Quote
Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to the narrow teleology of winning matches… check the way that most of the endlessly replayed footage we see of Pele is not of him scoring goals, but audaciously missing chances contrived by force of wit. Mark Fisher Read Quote
What better example than the World Cup is there of the fact that individual people are irrelevant while impersonal structures are invariant? Mark Fisher Read Quote
The World Cup is like the Overlook Hotel: the identities of individual meat puppets might change, but the structure continues endlessly. Mark Fisher Read Quote
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture ‘War’ with ‘Terror’ in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without ‘legitimate authority’ to wage war. Mark Fisher Read Quote
A Scanner Darkly’ is one of Dick’s bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest. Mark Fisher Read Quote
In ‘A Scanner Darkly,’ as in ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,’ all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal. Mark Fisher Read Quote
Noir’ has been talked about a great deal in the discussion of ‘The Black Dahlia,’ but De Palma’s palllete couldn’t be less monochrome; it’s the very definition of garish. Mark Fisher Read Quote
I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame. Mark Fisher Read Quote
