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Congratulations, Dom! Will you send a copy to President Obama [whom you chided for winning the Presidency and ruining your lovely au courant philosophy]? <g> I'm delighted to purchase a copy. Can I persuade you, then, to a reciprocal re-posting of your 'Never Gonna Give You Up' on YouTube? Judy 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 >