817 pages ; 24 cm

text

unmediated

volume

Foreword / Simon Reynolds -- Editor's introduction / Darren Ambrose -- Why K?

Part one: Methods of dreaming: books (Book meme ; Space, time, light, all the essentials: reflections on J.G. Ballard season (BBC 4) ; Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan ; A fairground's pastoral swings ; What are the politics of boredom?: (Ballard 2003 Remix) ; Let me be your fantasy ; Fantasy kits:...

Part two: Screens, dreams and spectres: film and television (A spoonful of sugar ; She's not my mother ; Stand up, Nigel Barton ; Portmeiron: an ideal for living ; Golgothic materialism ; This movie doesn't move me ; Fear and misery in the Third Reich 'n' Roll ; We want it all ; Gothic Oedipus: subj...

Part three: Choose your weapons: writing on music (The by now traditional Glasto rant ; Art pop, no, really ; k-punk, or the glampunk art pop discontinuum ; Noise as anti-capital: As the veneer of democracy starts to fade ; Lions after slumber, or what is sublimation today? ; The outside of everythi...

Part four: For now, our desire is nameless: political writings (Don't vote, don't encourage them ; October 6, 1979: capitalism and bipolar disorder ; What if they had a protest and everyone came ; Defeating the Hydra ; The face of terrorism without a face ; Conspicuous force and verminisation ; My c...

Part five: We have to invent the future: interviews (They can be different in the future too: interviewed by Rowan Wilson for Ready, steady book (2010) ; Capitalism realism: : interviewed by for Richard Capes (2011) ; Preoccupying: : interviewed by the Occupied Times (2012) ; We need a post-capitali...

Part six: We are not here to entertain you: reflections (One year later ... ; Spinoza, k-punk, Neuropunk ; Why Dissensus? ; New comments policy ; Comments policy (latest) ; Chronic demotivation ; How to keep Oedipus alive in cyberspace ; We dogmatists ; London litened ; No future 2012 ; Ridicule is...