Punk’s sublimation is alien to mystification and demystifying

Evidence

The famous displaying of all the recording costs on the sleeve was demystificatory but not desublimating. What is too often missed about any punk that matters in fact, is that sublimation, far from requiring mystification, is alien to it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 988

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes Fisher’s key distinction: demystification and sublimation are opposites, not allies.
• XREF: connects to: What ended with punk was knowledge that interior selves are constructed stage sets — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1020; Punk inverted 68 by repudiating pleasure and exposing interiority as ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1018

Broader Connections

• What ended with punk was knowledge that interior selves are constructed stage sets #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1020