Fetishistically Feminine She was made of very pale mauve silk in the shape of a cone truncated at the waist and toward the base, adorned with three rows of black ribbon, the last of which, brushing the ground, appeared to form the tiny pedestal of the pretty, specious statuette. The waist was dainty, also encircled with black, and the shoulders and arms were covered with a cape with three collars of a darker mauve, whence emerged, like a pale, blonde flower, the delicate head. Gourmont 954 A fetishist finds himself waiting impatiently for the first day of the Spring season each year, when the prostitutes flaunt their new dresses in Remy De Gourmont’s The Dress . This year, the fetishist finds a dress just to his taste. The girl in the dress leads the man to her apartment so they can make their exchange and begins removing her garments. The man flies into a rage, kills the woman, and fucks the dress. This fetishist is pining after the accoutrements of femininity that the prostitut
Kaloprosopia Rising Consciousness has all but disappeared. In his 2013 talk for the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) collective, Mark Fisher clarifies that capitalist realism is most properly a form of consciousness deflation, a loss of the ability to imagine an alternative, and a lack of even thinking the problems of capitalism, which is “directly aimed at crushing” the consciousness raised in the 60s and 70s (Temporary). In his talk, Fisher identifies three types of consciousness—class consciousness, psychedelic consciousness, and consciousness-raising–-which have been smothered by the rise of neoliberalism. It is this last one which interests herethics most. Consciousness-raising was a process pioneered by socialist feminists wherein group members would gather together in groups and talk through how problems and feelings—whether social, familial, professional, or amorous—related to and were the fault of structures of capitalism and patriarchy. All three forms of consci