Fridays 08 & 15,
21 (Thursday)
& Friday 29 of May
from 18:30-20:30
Price: 120€
This four-part workshop engages the work of Mark Fisher as a thinker of possibility. Given the tragic end of his life, he is often associated with diagnoses of exhaustion, depression, and the closure of the future, but this course approaches his commitments through a different lens: affirmation.
To begin with critique is to begin on the defensive. If capitalist realism names a blockage of desire, the task is not only to describe this blockage, but to identify where desire might begin again – collectively, experimentally, and beyond mere compensation.
Across four modules – from The Weird and the Eerie and hauntology to postcapitalist desire and Acid Communism – the workshop traces a movement: from Fisher’s way of diagnosing the present, through his speculative propositions, into the impasses we face today, and toward possible openings.
The aim is to carry the flame that Mark Fisher passed to us: always current, always bright, always punk.
Module 1 – Fisher’s Moods: Attention
The Weird and the Eerie (excerpts)
Module 2 – Haunting and Persistence: Insistence
Ghosts of My Life (excerpts)
Module 3 – Blocked Desire: Construction
Postcapitalist Desire (excerpts)
Module 4 – New Desire: Activation
Acid Communism (Sketch) (excerpts)
OBJECTIVES
- to pass with Mark Fisher to the current moods, atmospheres, and cultural experience
- to recognize how desire is shaped, limited, and dispersed today
- to develop a language that does not stop at critique, but opens toward possibility
AFTER THE WORKSHOP
- you’ll be able to think rigorously and creatively outside the academia
- you will understand how moods and atmospheres structure perception
- you will see desire as something produced and therefore transformable
FOR WHOM
- for those who think, write, and sense that something is missing
- for activists and others seeking forms of action that feel alive and compelling
- for those suffering from depression, sensing it exceeds the personal
BIO
Pawel Jankiewicz is a writer, curator and activist. He is the founder of Galerie Linger – Art, Books & Press, where he teaches weekly courses and workshops on art, literature, and philosophy. He is the author of two poetry collections, and the initiator of the call for Ruin Studies (MSSR), which explores contemporary forms of ruination and the emergence of new subjects.
*To sign up for this workshop, inquire at galerielinger@gmail.com
**All materials are included and will be provided upon registration