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"Vernacular postmodernism has dealt with the 'crisis of symbolic efficiency' in a far less intense way than Nick Land, through metafictional anxieties about the function of the author, and in television programs or films which expose the mecha- nisms of their own productions and reflexively incorporate discussions of their own status as commodities. But postmod- ernism's supposed gestures of demystification do not evince sophistication so much as a certain naivety, a conviction that there were others, in the past, who really believed in the Symbolic. In fact, of course, 'symbolic efficiency' was achieved precisely by maintaining a clear distinction between a material- empirical causality, and another, incorporeal causality proper to the Symbolic..." - Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism First Blood - 1982 - Ted Kotcheff Flooding With Love For The Kid - 2010 - Zachary Oberzan Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-units/id1241776225?mt=2