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Jul 10, 2022Liked by Neil Scott

Another great article! The COVID definitely hasn't resulted in brain fog!

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I hadn’t heard of Andy Wright, but it sounds like he was a fine chap. A pity about him.

There’s a lot to be said for Eno’s Scenius theory (thank you for introducing me to it!).

I think about many of the leading lights of the 60s and 70s (Godard, Bowie etc) who struggled to rise above mediocrity in the 80s. The counterculture they’d thrived in had by then dissipated, along with the somewhat mysterious energies that’d animated that culture.

Also Mark Fisher. The dissolution of what I call the Fishersphere (the British left-wing blogging milieu of the 2000s, of which he was the central figure) seems to have taken its toll on his creative energies. After Capitalist Realism all of his books, while certainly offering writing of very high calibre, were merely rehashes of K-Punk posts he’d made in the 2000s. And I think the intellectual collapse of the wider Left in the 2010s was another blow for Fisher.

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