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Due out September 2009, "Cold World: the aesthetics of dejection and the politics of militant dysphoria" will be my first published book (unless a slim volume of poetry unexpectedly appears between now and then...). Read! These stunning endorsements, from leading figures in the world of nihilist philosophy and bizarre Middle Eastern Lovecraftian theory/fiction: "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". "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". Swoon! At the stark, uncompromising modernism of the cover: http://www.o-books.com/popup_image.php?pID=612 Salivate! At the thought of elegantly-written* essays on Hopkins and eternal damnation, Coleridge and dejection, "late" black metal and the libidinal economics of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Buy! The book, in a little under a year's time. It will make a great Christmas present for people who like that sort of thing. Dominic p.s. Millie Tant dyswhatthefuck? See here: http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=250 and here http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=251 and here http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=252 for the blog posts that started the whole thing off. * Warning: may contain passages of dense theory-speak.