”… every young person is a Gnostic Christian, a spark of alienated self-awareness trapped inside layers of matter, navigating a social world made all the more powerful by the fact that no one believes in it. Punk responds to that world with apocalyptic fire, post-punk with apocalyptic cold and stasis. And after a few years you want to say to that younger self, to the punks, and sometimes to Fisher, that loving this world, compromised as it is, does not have to be conservative, that love is also an opening up of possibilities.”

Turning Nothings Into Somethings