{"product_id":"how-to-read-k-punk-sex-cyberculture-and-theory-in-the-blog-of-mark-fisher-copy-copy","title":"how to read k-punk: sex, cyberculture and theory in the blog of Mark Fisher","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoth in-person and Zoom tickets available. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you are purchasing for more than one person, please make a note of their name in the order notes when checking out. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWhat happens when a blog outlives the person who wrote it?\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eOver three Wednesday evenings, this reading and discussion series explores Mark Fisher’s \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/k-punk.org\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ek-punk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e as blog, archive, voice, and cultural artefact: fragmented, emotionally charged, digitally mediated, and deeply embedded in the internet culture of the early 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eTogether we’ll read selections from \u003cem\u003ek-punk\u003c\/em\u003e aloud, discussing blogging cultures, cyberculture, online communication, sexuality, confession, gothic theory, and the relationship between culture, technology, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eAs much a reading group as it is a seminar, cultural experiment, community exercise, the series approaches \u003cem\u003ek-punk\u003c\/em\u003e as a live mode of thought in all the ways it is contradictory, intimate, polemical, funny, uncomfortable, and unfinished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eNo prior theory background or familiarity with Fisher’s work is required. Participants are welcome to attend individual sessions or the full series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eSession One | Wednesday 17 June · 6pm–7:30pm\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eTogether we’ll read selected entries aloud in which Fisher engages with the discussions of sex, cyberfeminism, and digital culture emerging in the early 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eThe first session focuses on the experience of reading \u003cem\u003ek-punk\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eAs a group, we’ll discuss what it feels like to encounter writing that loops, drifts, fragments, contradicts itself, and resists neat interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eSession Two | Wednesday 24 June · 6pm–7:30pm\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eThe second session moves into some of Fisher’s more volatile writing around sexuality, aversion, disclosure, shame, intimacy, and digital communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eRather 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eOptional participatory exercises and collaborative experiments with anonymous writing, commentary, and digital forms will also form part of the session.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eSession Three | Wednesday 1 July · 6pm–7:30pm\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eThe final session widens outward into cyberculture, goth aesthetics, online archives, digital afterlives, music, and the continuing cultural residue of \u003cem\u003ek-punk\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eWhat 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eThis session will be looser and more reflective, drawing together themes, fragments, and discussions from across the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOptional participatory exercises and collaborative experiments with anonymous writing, commentary, and digital forms will also form part of the session.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eAbout the Host\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eGeorgia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eGeorgia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eImportant Information\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003ePlease note that this series engages with themes including sexuality, sexual violence, trauma, aversion, and personal disclosure as they appear throughout Mark Fisher’s writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eParticipants are welcome to engage at whatever level feels appropriate to them, including stepping out, taking breaks, or choosing not to contribute to particular discussions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003eThis 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. 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