Postcapitalist Desire by Mark Fisher (2021)

A heartbreaking (both in content and in context) collection of the late Mark Fisher's (k-punk) final series of lectures at the University of London. Topics range from the relationship between our wants and purchases, accelerationism, the rise and fall of the counterculture, consciousness and an unfinished project that breaks beyond our current cultural and political moment.

Mark's life tragically mirrors some of the same futility he spent so much of his working life researching — much like the absurdity in Don Draper's biggest advertising breakthrough following a trajectory of disillusionment leading to a "breakthrough" at the Esalen institute, Mark became a prominent voice in the movement before taking his own life under presumably the overwhelming weight of society's immutability.