Rather than ridiculing Mensch’s disingenuous argument – as her fellow contestants do – Fisher takes it seriously. In the video, the former Tory MP Louise Mensch – “I can’t believe she’s called ‘Mensch’ it’s like a daft Martin Amis character, isn’t it?” Fisher comments – claims that Occupy protesters were undermining their critique of capitalism by buying coffee from Starbucks and tweeting on their iPhones: “You can’t be against capitalism and then take everything that it provides.” Fisher began the first lecture by playing three clips, the last from a 2011 episode of Have I Got News for You. When the cultural critic and theorist Mark Fisher took his own life on 13 January 2017 at the age of 48, he was a third of a way through delivering a lecture series titled “Postcapitalist Desire”, which he had devised as part of an MA course in contemporary art theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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