The coincidence of music and politics in this second volume of Mark Fisher's writings could seem arbitrary. However, that crossing will be essential to achieve what he considered a strategic objective: to overcome the alienating effect of academic thinking and the sliding aesthetics on the left. Both the experimental writing laboratory that was over the eighties the British musical press as those electrifying episodes in which popular music became a catalyst for collective tendencies and radical sensitivities are the foundations on which Fisher built a project that is He proposed to reconnect cultural criticism with a political program. The band working class Glam such as Roxy Music or Visage, the Pulp Modernism of The Fall, the suburban cult on Gothic bands such as The Cure, the alien sound of the Jungle or the post-Rave sonic landscapes of Burial will provide models to escape exhaustion of the imagination that imposes capitalist realism.

K-Punk can be interpreted as a manual on how to write cultural criticism in the 21st century. If in the first volume we understood that the "K" of Fisher's pseudonym Blogger referred to Kuber (the Greek term for "Ciber"), this delivery clears any doubt about the second component. Here the punk aesthetics manifests itself both in the affiliated prose with which to demue its enemies (Tony Blair, the British Liberal Press, Rock Festivals) as in the urgency of their interventions, which operate as incisor comments from the situation in time real. We read sharp reflections on electoral results or the 2008 financial crisis, Chronicles of London looting in 2011 and glosses on their insidious media coverage. This book also suggests elements for a compelling criticism to the privatization of education and mental health, and for an analysis of the harmful effects of precarious employment and addiction to smartphones. The reading effect reinforces the question that stalks us since the death of him: What would Mark Fisher think about our catastrophic news? The latest entries of this volume - Esobre Isis, Trump and Brexit- help us imagine some answers.