k-punk

A number of half-completed posts have been held up by my having to deal with the redundancy issue and with the reflexive impotents. But posts on Nigel Cooke, the Gothic Nightmares exhibition and class and subjective destitution should appear very early next week.
In the meantime, my interview with Julian House is in the current issue of Fact magazine, available free from many record shops in the UK.
I’m going to the East coast for the weekend; I may very well write a post about that when I return. I’ll leave you with a quote from ‘The Purloined Marx’, Jameson’s 1995 essay on Specters of Marx:
‘Capitalism… as in the historical narrative we have inherited from the triumphant bourgeoisie and the great bourgeois revolutions, is the first social form to have eliminated religion as such and to have entered on the purely secular vocation of human life and human society. Yet according to Marx, religion knows an immediate ‘return of the repressed’ at the very moment of the coming into being of such a secular society, which, imagining it has done away with the sacred, then at once unconsciously sets itself in pursuit of the ‘fetishism of commodities’. The incoherence is resolved if only we understand that a truly secular society is yet to come, lies in the future…’