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The Apocalyptic, Ancient and Modern - Jacobite
"The Apocalyptic, Ancient and Modern - Jacobite" belongs to the k-punk/public-theory line, where culture criticism becomes a way of thinking politics, temporality, and collective feeling in public.
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Core idea
The page matters because Fisher's public theory was built through cultural criticism rather than alongside it. Blog posts, dialogues, memorials, and public essays all serve as media for thinking capitalist realism, affect, desire, and afterlife.
These texts work by refusing the border between criticism and theory. Music, film, blogs, theory-books, and scene reports are turned into relays through which wider political and temporal diagnoses can be made in public.
That matters because Fisher's archive is one of the clearest later public afterlives of the CCRU. The section needs these pages to show how difficult conceptual material can circulate through public criticism without losing intensity.
How to read this text
Read for the move from cultural object to conceptual claim. The strongest pages turn review or commentary into a method of theory-construction.
Track how the page names collective feeling, blocked futurity, or political desire. Those are usually the public-theoretical hinges.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
Apocalyptic, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις, apokalupsis, itself a deverbal from ἀποκαλύπτω, apokalupto, ‘to reveal, to uncover, unveil’ — does not mean eschatological. However, apocalyptic literature has often concerned itself with eschatology, and thus has apocalypse been tainted with the sense of eschaton.
Definition · paragraph 2
The mostly online nature of this constellation is far from its unifying factor, and its opposition to hegemonic cultural discourse is secondary to the one element that binds it all — the apocalyptic. Apocalyptic, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις, apokalupsis, itself a deverbal from ἀποκαλύπτω, apokalupto, ‘to reveal, to uncover, unveil’ — does not mean eschatological.
History · paragraph 4
The Apocalyptic, Ancient and Modern – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220520112958mp_/https://jacobitemag.com/2019/03/12/the-apocalyptic-ancient-and-modern-an-exit/[3/26/2023 11:04:20 AM] dominant peoples ‘all at once’ and simultaneously,” while this collective project, Marx continues, is wholly dependent “on the universal development of productive forces and the world intercourse bound up with communism.” Mark Fisher bewailed somewhere that the future had been taken from us.
History · paragraph 1
The Apocalyptic, Ancient and Modern – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220520112958mp_/https://jacobitemag.com/2019/03/12/the-apocalyptic-ancient-and-modern-an-exit/[3/26/2023 11:04:20 AM] THE APOCALYPTIC, ANCIENT AND MODERN Ulysses - March 12, 2019 - The world has been closed down upon us.
History · paragraph 2
The Apocalyptic, Ancient and Modern – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220520112958mp_/https://jacobitemag.com/2019/03/12/the-apocalyptic-ancient-and-modern-an-exit/[3/26/2023 11:04:20 AM] eschaton about have spun empty on their axis. That starry dynamo has creaked and creaked and at last, has stopped.
Appears in sections
Mark Fisher and Public Theory Primary section
Fisher as bridge figure, public critic, and one of the clearest routes into the archive's afterlife.