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What happens when a blog outlives the person who wrote it?
Over three Wednesday evenings, this reading and discussion series explores Mark Fisher’s k-punk as blog, archive, voice, and cultural artefact: fragmented, emotionally charged, digitally mediated, and deeply embedded in the internet culture of the early 2000s.
Together we’ll read selections from k-punk aloud, discussing blogging cultures, cyberculture, online communication, sexuality, confession, gothic theory, and the relationship between culture, technology, and desire.
As much a reading group as it is a seminar, cultural experiment, community exercise, the series approaches k-punk as a live mode of thought in all the ways it is contradictory, intimate, polemical, funny, uncomfortable, and unfinished.
No prior theory background or familiarity with Fisher’s work is required. Participants are welcome to attend individual sessions or the full series.
Session One | Wednesday 17 June · 6pm–7:30pm
Together we’ll read selected entries aloud in which Fisher engages with the discussions of sex, cyberfeminism, and digital culture emerging in the early 2000s.
The first session focuses on the experience of reading k-punk itself. We'll trace blogs as live thought; all hyperlinks and tangents. We'll look at online communication, internet temporality, and the threshold between theory, criticism, confession, and posting.
As a group, we’ll discuss what it feels like to encounter writing that loops, drifts, fragments, contradicts itself, and resists neat interpretation.
Session Two | Wednesday 24 June · 6pm–7:30pm
The second session moves into some of Fisher’s more volatile writing around sexuality, aversion, disclosure, shame, intimacy, and digital communication.
Rather than treating these writings as fixed theoretical positions, the session explores how experience appears through fragmented online writing at all — how blogs function as spaces of immediacy, contradiction, affect, and unstable self-construction.
Optional participatory exercises and collaborative experiments with anonymous writing, commentary, and digital forms will also form part of the session.
Session Three | Wednesday 1 July · 6pm–7:30pm
The final session widens outward into cyberculture, goth aesthetics, online archives, digital afterlives, music, and the continuing cultural residue of k-punk.
What does it mean to encounter a dead writer through a still-live digital archive? What remains contemporary about Fisher’s writing now? And how has this style of internet thought transformed across the decades since it was written?
This session will be looser and more reflective, drawing together themes, fragments, and discussions from across the series.
Optional participatory exercises and collaborative experiments with anonymous writing, commentary, and digital forms will also form part of the session.
About the Host
Georgia Gibbs is an artist and media studies PhD candidate at Monash University whose research explores the intersection of feminist theory, schizoanalysis, sexuality, and contemporary digital cultures.
Her current research examines social media contagion through feminist media studies, critical theory, and schizoanalytic frameworks, with a particular interest in how desire, affect, confession, and identity circulate through online environments. Alongside her academic work, she maintains a visual art practice that engages closely with themes emerging from her research.
Georgia has published research on feminine sexuality in horror film, and has presented work on femininity, negative affect, online culture, and contemporary feminist sexual politics. Her upcoming research continues this focus, exploring Deleuze’s theorisation of masochism, queer theory, cyberculture, and the relationship between sexuality and digital communication.
Important Information
Please note that this series engages with themes including sexuality, sexual violence, trauma, aversion, and personal disclosure as they appear throughout Mark Fisher’s writing.
While discussion may touch on emotionally difficult material, the sessions are not designed as therapeutic or confessional spaces, and participants will never be expected or encouraged to share personal experiences. Discussions will remain grounded in the texts, ideas, and collective conversation rather than autobiographical disclosure.
Participants are welcome to engage at whatever level feels appropriate to them, including stepping out, taking breaks, or choosing not to contribute to particular discussions.
This series is intended as a respectful and intellectually engaged environment. Harassment, discriminatory behaviour, deliberate provocation, intimidation, or repeated disregard for participant boundaries will not be tolerated. The organisers reserve the right to ask participants to leave if their behaviour prevents others from participating comfortably or safely.
