The left must reshape media rather than avoid or capitulate to it
Evidence
And not only fail, but will also produce this kind of political despondency such as I tried to describe in the book really. I think we have to go between these two strategies — either staying outside the mainstream media completely or just adapting to what the mainstream media is like now. We have to learn lessons from neoliberals, really, I think. They were capable of changing what the media was in the same way we have to imagine that the media can change in our direction. Of course they’ve got resources we haven’t got. But we’ve got resources they haven’t got as well. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2152
Categorization
- SEED: A left-media strategy essay contrasting exit/adaptation with the third path of transforming media institutions, drawing directly on how the right did it.
- XREF: connects to: Reification is inescapable, so the left should pursue anti-capitalist reification — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2077; Leftists must transform during defeat rather than retreat or adapt — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1561; Effective left politics must engage institutions from without rather than within — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1910 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Neo-anarchist disengagement from mainstream media serves the powerful it opposes
#corroborates(0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1676 - The old left’s deafness to culture let the new right claim modernisation
#corroborates(0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1379 - Leftists must transform during defeat rather than retreat or adapt
#qualifies(0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1561 - Reification is inescapable, so the left should pursue anti-capitalist reification
#expands(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2077 - Effective left politics must engage institutions from without rather than within
#complicates(0.74) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1910