What are some books, besides Welsh's Trainspotting, that explore the death of socialdemocratic western europe...

Err, what? Scotfag here, I haven’t read it for a while but I’m pretty sure Trainspotting has fuck all to do with that.

Death and the Penguin is a set around the collapse of the Soviet Union and the corrupt and fucked up society that takes its place.

There are none. The liberal elites and rich immigrants won't allow a book like that to be published.

Capital by John Lanchester

The fuck are you on about the novel's about modern day poverty and shit. That's directly linked to neoliberalism.

Based.

I've read an essay by Welsh were he explicitly details how Trainspotting is about the collapse of the post war consensus and its replacement by capitalist free for all. He wanted the characters to be seen, not as victims, but participants in the nihilistic free for all
Hence Renton stealing from his friends in the end, the character of Sickboy, the inability of people like Spud to function without the safety net etc.
It's included in some DVDs of the film

Sounds pretty cool, might try and dig one up. Only ever watched pirate copies. Pretty pertinent critique imo, reminds me of Jodi Dean's stuff on neoliberal jouissance

It's fun to read Welsh without the Scotch dialect, he writes really good conventional prose. One thing he emphasises is that Renton stealing the money shouldn't be seen just as a personal act of betrayal, but as Renton acting as a good little Thatcherite, obeying the new consensus to put personal gain over emotional loyalties

Yeah good stuff, had no idea Welsh had been so open about it lol. I read Porno which had way less dialect, but I found it way less engaging. Probably just because it felt more bloated though, as opposed to the lack of dialect prose.

Welsh is one of my favourite authors, is there any essays of his you’d recommend? I don’t think I’ve delved outside of his fiction bar the occasional column he’d write

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Well maybe you should try watching Pornos next time instead user!

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Mein Kampf. Basically the same thing as Weimar Germany except on a broader scale.

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>uncertain
what exactly is uncertain about its failure to so much as mediate the forces it set out to quell?

>The author told me
it doesn't matter what the author says
that doesn't have anything to do with what the story is about
why would you assume the author observed everything about their own creative process?
if they are honest and talented they didn't observe half of what they did and they didn't do anything exactly as they intended.

just by being honest you can tell more truth than you realize.

>actually there is a right answer because this is about my personal delusions of ego not extracting anything of objective value
Yea Forums in a nutshell

is there any place that kicks these braindead drones out on sight?

Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
It's great you will see how liberalism, relativism, materialism, agnosticism, vague spiritualism are all connected and just different stages of the refection of Truth.
It's short and you can find it for free.
Next in line for us is vitalisum.

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Actually given the context of this thread (people denying even the existence of a neoliberal/'political' aspect of Trainspotting) the authorial intent discussion has no bearing whatsoever. The point is simply that the space exists (as identified by the author but anyone could make this observation) to perform such a reading, and a fairly strong one at that. The rest of your post is just autism.

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My diary desu

Anything good in populism. I say it as a recommendation and also and ask for suggestions.