K-PUNK KLASSIC OR DUD

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WHO HEREZ DOWN WITH COLD RATIONALIZM YO?

― spinoza da bulldoza, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

I don't look at it that much these days - Mark and I have, to put it mildly, drifted apart somewhat - but he seems to have staked out his territory pretty successfully and I enjoyed the documentary he did for Resonance last week.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

i like him he's a friend of mine and i think this is a really ill-advised and potentially divisive thread.

― stelfox, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

Which is why (a) the last thread of this sort got deleted; and (b) I gave an honest and reasonable reply to the question.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah, good call. i hope this one gets deleted, too. i've put a moderator request up.

― stelfox, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry Dave, but I don't think this should be deleted unless a) it gets really nasty in which case it should be locked, or b) Mark K-Punk himself requests it. AFAIK he isn't a member of this community and therefore people have as much right to discuss his blog as any other. Deleting it because it MIGHT get nasty and divisive is unnecessary.

Plus, it could actually become very interesting.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

i find it highly unlikely that it will become particularly edifying, but it's your decision. the record shows my feelings.

― stelfox, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Aren't people supposed to do this on Dissensus, or is that too close to home?

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

i apologize everyone, this wasn't meant as an attack thread. i actually like K-Punk.

i can't blame stelfox for wishing the thread deleted, the tone of my initial post does seem rather unnecessarily snarky. i have a tendency sometimes to be impulsive and go over the top. apologies, y'all.

anyway i'm really just curious what people agree with and disagree with or like or don't like etc. about K-Punk. it's really one of the more interesting blogs around, even if i don't agree with it sometimes.

(Dissensus didn't seem like the place to start this, as im not a regular there plus that's really Mark K-Punk's own turf and i'm interested in hearing what people outside of his immediate circle say).

― spinoza da bulldoza, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I had him as a lecturer and I liked those classes.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.newstatesman.com/television/2009/12/business-culture-cultural

"switch off your tv set and do something less boring instead"

is that really so hard to understand?

this article is the print equivalent of black rebel motorcyle club's 'whatever happened to my rock'n'roll' being covered by someone who isn't very good at writing and hasn't thought things through.

― Smokey and the S'Banned It (history mayne), Thursday, 10 December 2009 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

arrrrrrrrgh

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 December 2009 11:27 (sixteen years ago)

It's an exciting new variant on "Rage Against The Machine for Christmas #1!"

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 December 2009 11:56 (sixteen years ago)

LOL

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 10 December 2009 12:02 (sixteen years ago)

ha james fallows has a long-running series on that boiled frog metaphor

― goole, Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

lol:

In reality the situation is more like: "Put a frog in a pot of boiling water and he'll be scalded to death, but give him a chance to escape when the slowly-warming water gets uncomfortable, and he will hop right out."

― Smokey and the S'Banned It (history mayne), Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:40 (sixteen years ago)

Much of reality TV has been like the worst nightmares of Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard come true

pretty sure life in europe, 1939-45 was worse /easy shot

― goole, Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/25/online-dating-love-product

is this him?

― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Monday, 25 July 2011 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

k-punk is mark fisher

― cave duel (latebloomer), Monday, 25 July 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

John Walters works in academia – his work is concerned with European societies and politics in past and present. John Walters is a pseudonym. He posts on Comment is free as olching

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Monday, 25 July 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

john walters

― buzza, Monday, 25 July 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

I almost admire K-Punk for his adherence to the classic humourless, hectoring killjoy archetype.

I remember he wrote a couple of amazing music pieces way back but anything I've come across since seems self-parodic.

― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Monday, 25 July 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

he can def Rock an extended metaphor

― monogalomaniacal (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 July 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

that article is not him.

― Gukbe, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

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