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A New Face In Hell / Emily Allan, Leah Hennessey.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- SLASH.
- SLASH ; Episode 02
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Fisher, Mark, 1968-2017--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fisher, Mark.
- Smith, Mark E., 1957-2018--Criticism and interpretation.
- Smith, Mark E.
- Smith, Mark E., 1957-2018.
- Fall (Musical group).
- Heaven in literature.
- Hell in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- online resource (1 video file (10 min, 35 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : DIS.ART, 2020.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Welcome to hell. The late cultural theorist Mark Fisher, known to some as k-punk from his early blogging days, is giving a lecture on the "gentrification of contrapasso," the Dantean term for a punishment resembling the sin itself. What could this flashy phrase possibly mean? "Fisher is interested in those doomed to repetition until they realize their wrongdoing. See: Groundhog Day, Russian Doll. He hasn't watched that show, but he doesn't like what it's doing to hell on Earth. What he does like is punk band The Fall, particularly their inimitably antisocial frontman Mark E. Smith. He drones on and on about Smith's antiborgeious, radical inscrutability. Then, a certain kind of heaven. Smith appears before him. He got to heaven and he hated it. Soon he'll learn to regret his reactionary choice, doomed to spend his afterlife as part of Fisher's repeating his self-deluded sin." --DIS.ART
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