/lit/ - Literature

>>17433707
Fisher put the meat of his analysis into his shorter books proper, this is a posthumous collection of essays. His work on the artistic value of Dido is really what sold me and got me digging, and I can't focus reading on a computer because I end up on this fucking website so I got the book. I appreciate him for his music and film writing more than his analysis which is just a popularization of Jameson's work and some popularization/synthesis with your baudrillards, your debords, your deleuzes, and some sci-fi guys with fucked up teeth like ballard. Those of us who've already read all that can do the synthesis on our own right, it's sort of baby mode.
Nah I liked La-Bas but I don't have the patience for the decadents right now. Too much whining. I liked his confessional style and his descriptions of art (like fisher desu) especially the bit on the Grunewald altarpiece, but his complaints and solutions are pretty shortsighted and secondary mostly to his privileged bourgeois upbringing and overfrequent use of whores. It's so damn self indulgent and un-punk, there's no youthful virility to his worldview, which bugs me. Says something that the black mass sequence probably represents the limits of his imagination- decadence was a bourgeois approximation of rejection of bourgeois morality. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and it's still pretty good.
Thanks for asking.

>>15085778
I need to get out of the bay area.