Mark Fisher interview

K-Punk is INTERVIEWED HERE, with a brief mention of speculative realism as part of the festivities. Here’s a passage of interest:

“…I started blogging as a way of getting back into writing after the traumatic experience of doing a PhD. PhD work bullies one into the idea that you can’t say anything about any subject until you’ve read every possible authority on it. But blogging seemed a more informal space, without that kind of pressure. Blogging was a way of tricking myself back into doing serious writing.”

That’s why I’ll put this under the “advice” heading. The Ph.D. can indeed be traumatic– one of the longest and most cruel initiation rites ever described by anthropologists.