- I'm informed that 6 pristine physical copies are
> waiting for me at home.
Dom you have to watch out for pristine physical copies but are they of the
book or some pristine physical copies of you
Be warned Patrick caring person
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Sent: 18 September 2009 17:37
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Subject: Re: Cold World
Hail Dom (also ) of the Dead
2009/9/18 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> My book is now in print - I'm informed that 6 pristine physical copies are
> waiting for me at home.
>
> I am posting excerpts on my blog every day until the launch event (at
> Goldsmiths on the 30th): http://www.codepoetics.com/poetix
>
> Here are some kind things that people have said about it:
>
> "We have been told by the living that the idea of a vital world is that of
> comfort and warmth. Dominic Fox assures us that this is not the case. With
> an unparalleled militant efficiency, Cold World blackens the lines between
> poetics and politics, music and negative resistance. It is a haunting
sermon
> from the world of the dead exhorting the living to revolt in the name of a
> life whose vitality has been disenchanted by coldness and whose sacredness
> has been profaned by nigredo." - Reza Negarestani, Author of Cyclonopedia:
> Complicity with Anonymous Materials
>
> "Dominic Fox's timely and important Cold World pinpoints the fundamental
> issue underlying contemporary debate about the possibility of
revolutionary
> politics in a culture suffused by paralysing despondency. Drawing on a
> remarkable array of sources from Coleridge and Gerard Manley Hopkins to
> Xasthur and Ulrike Meinhof, Fox explores the necessary yet apparently
> contradictory link between refusal and revolution. While refusal without
> revolution perpetuates the very condition it would negate, revolution
> without refusal quickly lapses into phantasmatic utopianism. The
quandaries
> of this particular dialectic have never been as lucidly charted as they
are
> here." - Ray Brassier, Author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and
Extinction
>
> Just fancy! Anyway, you can pre-order it in various places, including
> Amazon, so if lucid chartings of dialectical quandaries are your bag, I
> suggest you hurry, hurry, hurry before they're all sold out.
>
> Dominic
>
--
David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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