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the inevitable suffering that nature causes the body

The success of the show outside the US has provoked some amusing parodies. Imagine Breaking Bad set in the UK and Canada. Opening scene. Doctor tells Walt he has cancer – the treatment starts next week. End of series. What this points out is an opposition that was crucial to the drama: between the …

—p.231 K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher Beyond Good and Evil: Breaking Bad (231) by Mark Fisher
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lugubrious

perplexing us with its lugubrious dementria

—p.765 Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction) (751) by Mark Fisher
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indelibly

the marks of class are designed to be indelible

—p.748 Good for Nothing (747) by Mark Fisher
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soporific

these soporific linguistic screensavers

in defense of writing that could be seen as pretentious

—p.720 Ridicule is Nothing to Be Scared Of (Slight Return) (719) by Mark Fisher
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scission

The tension that has defined the neoliberal right for forty years - in which ostensibly opposing positions in practice complemented one another - has now become a scission.

—p.623 Mannequin Challenge (617) by Mark Fisher
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