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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