The crucial political question is who will convert class anger into a new project

Evidence

It isn’t always the role of political music to come up with solutions. But nothing could be more urgent than the questions that Sleaford Mods pose: who will make contact with the anger and frustration that Williamson articulates? Who can convert this bad affect into a new political project? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1357

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Fisher’s genuinely open question — unanswered and unanswerable, which is the point.
  • XREF: connects to: Revolutionary change requires converting pain into politically effective outrage; A crucial rhetorical shift produces a new political narrative — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 134; Political will works through existing forces to create a new equilibrium

Broader Connections