/lit/ - Literature

>>11814591
Planning to read it after Flatline Constructs. Already read Capitalist Realism.

>"The privilege I certainly enjoy as a white male consists in part in my not being aware of my ethnicity and my gender, and it is a sobering and revelatory experience to occasionally be made aware of these blind-spots. But, rather than seeking a world in which everyone achieves freedom from identitarian classification, the Vampires’ Castle seeks to corral people back into identi-camps, where they are forever defined in the terms set by dominant power, crippled by self-consciousness and isolated by a logic of solipsism which insists that we cannot understand one another unless we belong to the same identity group."

Fuck, please come back Fisher. I barely evade complete exile from my circle of leftists friends almost every day. I'm afraid that any day now I'll lose all of my friends, some of them I've been friends with since childhood, over speaking out about identity politics. Ever since my closest friend came out as trans she's completely turned her back on actual theory and meaningful praxis. Every single day I have to hear about how I'll never understand and should "sit down and shut up" when the topic turns towards the trans community. And whenever I bring up political theory I get groans, they just change the topic.
It's become so bad that I've thought about removing all of my trans friends on any social media, since all of them have been pure cancer. Whenever they're made uncomfortable by anything I'm told to stop what I'm doing immediately, but whenever I'm made uncomfortable by their posts (including sending me unsolicited lewds), I'm told to grow up and stop being so sensitive. It's made me incredibly bitter towards the trans community and I hate how bitter I've become. I need more people like Mark Fisher in my life. Rest in peace.