'Just fancy,' indeed, Dominic
Cool congratulations are in order, & on.
And I had not, my bad, looked at your blog: but will do so now; very
interesting....
Doug
On 18-Sep-09, at 7:29 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> 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
>
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