{"title":"Critical Theory","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"inside-a-gleaming-feeling-by-craig-pollard","title":"INSIDE A GLEAMING FEELING by Craig Pollard","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e120mm x 180mm, 148pp, perfect bound, black and white digital printing, 20 monochrome tip-in images on 80gsm fluorescent paper, fluorescent stickers affixed to covers, open edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA collection of conference papers, lectures and excerpts on music, art making and the internet by Newcastle based practitioner Craig Pollard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eInside a Gleaming Feeling\u003c\/em\u003e is a slender collection of texts commodious in scope, constantly inhabiting the paradoxes and contradictions at which it points its compass, or - in the case of the metamodernist metaphor cited in the chapter \u003cem\u003efor a while now, I’ve at least had a sense that whatever it is I am living is not something that is entirely resolved by the usual categories I have inherited - \u003c\/em\u003ethe pendulum oscillating between “innumerable poles”. Not with an exhausted drag from one portal, gate, debate, stage, screen or field to the next, but a delicate gathering force in dialogue with the present and its permutations. The texts gathered here enact an intersectional feminist praxis, a commitment to show all sides of this potent dodecahedron called ~culture. Craig’s is a goal not of placing this apart from that in binaried opposition, but tracing the threads and their interlopers, the ways in which they fold, crack and foreground “fissures of possibility”. Read its title \u003cem\u003eInside a Gleaming Feeling\u003c\/em\u003e as its “feeling structure”, a phrase which by the author’s own confession made its first attempt at utterance as a line which never made it into a song, could not be smoothly patterned in, but poses a fitting fly poster to read this book with. To gleam is to “shine brightly, especially with reflected light” and so the question leans: how is it even possible to be \u003cem\u003einside\u003c\/em\u003e a reflection, fleeting brief and shiny? This contradictive something at the tip of the tongue is the positive inarticulation of the hook or the hashtag, bobbing its head to the rhythm of “paradox as constitutive to contemporary experience.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eCraig Pollard is a music maker and artist based in Newcastle, UK. He is also an academic and part time lecturer, having completed a practice-led PhD about the politics of contemporary music making and creative practice in 2018. 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When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police?—from \u003cem\u003eCarceral Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on \u003cem\u003eRoboCop\u003c\/em\u003e, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. 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There were two books that drove this decision: Ian White’s \u003cem\u003eHere Is Information. Mobilise.\u003c\/em\u003e and Douglas Crimp’s \u003cem\u003eBefore Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e (both 2016). Both transcribe unvalidated states and formations, which makes you feel a different life is plausible, because it is in fact already here, unvalidated. Reading this writing, you sink into its rhythm and then keep searching for it. The rhythm was the message. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat the fire sees, the vision of the thing that produces light, is a primal thought and a reverse perspective. Wanting to know outcomes in advance – desiring a guarantee before the show – is a conservative position as it can only rely on established systems of value. Old modes, old institutions guarantee one’s legibility while breaking intuition. Forecasting is precisely the opposite of politics and what we believe is important in shared work: a risk taken together because things can be done differently. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThen how can difference not be a consumer choice? Conflicting positions are not a form of entertainment or titillation to be leveraged. Instead they make a case for what it means to remain torn, complex, unconsolidated, and for that not to be contrary to social cohesion. In this book, we are trying to make an architecture like this, with no world-building aspiration. The market singles one out as a consumer only, harnesses desire and makes it personal. It’s a sham and a bad rehearsal: desire is not connected to any single choice, it functions in the mutual realm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSontag’s advice to a writer was to find a limb and go out on it. This was a way of speaking about form. 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