To live well in the world one must be able to enjoy it: to love, Freud says, and work. Dejection is the state of being in which such enjoyment is no longer possible. There is an aesthetic dimension to dejection, in which the world appears in a new light. In this book, the dark serenity of dejection is examined through a study of the poetry of Hopkins and Coleridge, and the music of 'depressive' black metal artists such as Burzum and Xasthur. The author then develops a theory of 'militant dysphoria' via an analysis of the writings of the Red Army Fraction's activist-theoretician, Ulrike Meinhof. The book argues that the 'cold world' of dejection is one in which new creative and political possibilities, as well as dangers, can arise. It is not enough to live well in the world: one must also be able to affirm that another world is possible.
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Trade in Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria (Zero Books) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Learn more
|
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Review
We have been told by the living that the idea of a vital world is that of comfort and warmth. Dominic Fox assures us that this is not the case. With an unparalleled militant efficiency, Cold World blackens the lines between poetics and politics, music and negative resistance. It is a haunting sermon from the world of the dead exhorting the living to revolt in the name of a life whose vitality has been disenchanted by coldness and whose sacredness has been profaned by nigredo. --Reza Negarestani, Author of Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
Dominic Fox's timely and important Cold World pinpoints the fundamental issue underlying contemporary debate about the possibility of revolutionary politics in a culture suffused by paralysing despondency. Drawing on a remarkable array of sources from Coleridge and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Xasthur and Ulrike Meinhof, Fox explores the necessary yet apparently contradictory link between refusal and revolution. While refusal without revolution perpetuates the very condition it would negate, revolution without refusal quickly lapses into phantasmatic utopianism. The quandaries of this particular dialectic have never been as lucidly charted as they are here. --Ray Brassier, Author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction
Dominic Fox's timely and important Cold World pinpoints the fundamental issue underlying contemporary debate about the possibility of revolutionary politics in a culture suffused by paralysing despondency. Drawing on a remarkable array of sources from Coleridge and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Xasthur and Ulrike Meinhof, Fox explores the necessary yet apparently contradictory link between refusal and revolution. While refusal without revolution perpetuates the very condition it would negate, revolution without refusal quickly lapses into phantasmatic utopianism. The quandaries of this particular dialectic have never been as lucidly charted as they are here. --Ray Brassier, Author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction
About the Author
Dominic Fox is a writer, poet and musician best known for his weblog, Poetix, which presents an eclectic mixture of philosophy, cultural criticism and modernist poetry.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By E. Stewart
Format:Paperback
this is a properly seminal text, almost genreless, philosophy told as a poem. essential reading for anyone wanting a handle on how we live now, and what to do about it.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
4.5 out of 5 stars
2 reviews
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Short but entertaining and helpful
15 Dec 2010
By ignacio f.
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The book is fun to read yet the thought therein is sufficiently interesting and to the point that I want to read more Dominic Fox and am willing to take a chance on other books published by Zero Books. Of course it may be an obvious move in some circles to move from a close examination of a Britney Spears video to a black metal gloss on this same vid, then onward to the Baader-Meinhof group, but Fox goes into this material with wit and style.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cold World
27 Oct 2010
By Oscar
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Great book, took some time to understand the material but amazing none the less. This book greatly helps understand certain things in continental philosophy. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves non-fiction literature.
›
Go to Amazon.com to see both reviews
4.5 out of 5 stars
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
