Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

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Izaakson, Jen. (12 August 2017) ‘Kill All Normies’ skewers online identity politics Feminist Current. Retrieved 23 November 2018. A powerful book and worth the time to read it. But it does feature essays that are too self standing for my liking. However there are resonant sentences about time, space and nostalgia to render the book of value.

There is a good account of it in Sir Shane Leslie’s 1956 book 'Ghosts' where he interviewed three of the priests involved in trying to remove the poltergeist. My favourite line about the ghost is from Fr. Keown “ It showed a Protestant hostility to holy water which seemed to infuriate it…” Mark Fisher (11 July 1968– 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture.Seaton, Lola (20 January 2021). "The ghosts of Mark Fisher". New Statesman . Retrieved 22 January 2021. The family is a haunted structure, an Overlook Hotel full of presentiments and uncanny repetitions, something that speaks ahead of us, instead of us... Fisher, Mark. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Zero Books, 30 May 2014. ISBN 978-1-78099-226-6

The Weird and the Eerie | Repeater Books | Repeater Books". Repeater Books . Retrieved 16 July 2018. Mankowski, Guy (11 January 2018). "Remembering a Time Before the Great Culture War". Zer0 Books Youtube Channel . Retrieved 8 March 2021.In the late 2000s, Fisher re-purposed the term " capitalist realism" to describe "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it". [21]

What is suppressed in postmodern culture is not the Dark but the Light side. We are far more comfortable with demons than angels. Whereas the demonic appears cool and sexy, the angelic is deemed to be embarrassing and sentimental” Main articles: Hauntology and Hauntology (music) Mark Fisher lecturing on the topic "The Slow Cancellation of the Future" in 2014 This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher – eBook Details I don't know; this review is pretty bad and rambly and not very theoretically developed either but I avoided writing it for a couple of days because I just didn't have enough thoughts to do so lol. I don't want to give the impression that Mark Fisher is necessarily a bad thinker: obviously he was a pioneer in a lot of this type of 'hauntological' thinking (and it is definitely a valuable framework to analyse the capitalist dismantlement of modern culture), and a lot of the ideas he brings up (particularly in his essay on Kanye and Drake, and in the opening "Lost Futures" section) are astute and interesting. I also admit I love his taste in books, film, and music, which always helps. After reading two of his books now, though, I have to conclude that his thinking is a lot more limited than I had hoped for, and a lot more dependent on his influences (Jameson, Baudrillard etc) than it is a development on them. Starting with a Drake epigraph (however ironically) is pretty legendary thothis collection mostly consisting of blog entries ( https://k-punk.org/) is severely wanting in the politics/economics department, this part amounting mostly to marxist catch phrases and routine anticapitalist charges. Oh, and mid-20th-century-French-philosophy-inspired puns... The questions with which Fisher began his last lectures – about what we are capable of wanting and envisioning – are questions of consciousness. Their roots can be traced to the concept for which Fisher is most famous: “capitalist realism”, the title of his first, bestselling pamphlet, published in 2009. The original definition – “the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it” – is not, Fisher would later say, “quite accurate”. Capitalist realism is less a conviction than “a set of behaviours and affects that arise from [it]”. It entails a “deep embedding in a world – or set of worlds – in which capitalism is massively naturalised”. “The best way to think about capitalist realism,” Fisher told an audience in 2016, “is as a form of what I’d call consciousness-deflation.” Renowned writer and K-Punk blogger Mark Fisher from Felixstowe took own life after battle with depression", Ipswich Star, 18 July 2017 Burial. – О том, как хочется иметь ангела-хранителя, когда тебе некуда пойти и остается только поздно вечером сидеть в „Макдоналдсе“ и не отвечать на телефон»