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

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Identification with the alien meant the possibility of an escape from identity, into other subjectivities, other worlds.” Terminator II is "basically" the same as the first Terminator with added synths, a delay on the stabs and the Mentasm sample towards the end gets quite a bit more crazy on Terminator II but the structure is 95% the same. Unfortunately, few of the other essays in this first section even approach the tightness of Fisher’s initial manifesto. At times, the impetus of his argument is stretched to near breaking, as when he claims that society has lost confidence that there can be any kind of future at all, in his essay “The Past is an Alien Planet”.

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. Main articles: Hauntology and Hauntology (music) Mark Fisher lecturing on the topic "The Slow Cancellation of the Future" in 2014 I don't know; this review is pretty bad and rambly and not very theoretically developed either but I avoided writing it for a cou 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 Fisher published several books, including the unexpected success Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009), and contributed to publications such as The Wire, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound. He was also the co-founder of Zero Books, and later Repeater Books. After years intermittently struggling with depression, Fisher committed suicide in January 2017, shortly before the publication of The Weird and the Eerie (2017).

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Fisher, Mark (22 November 2013). "Exiting the Vampire Castle". Archived from the original on 4 February 2018. Reynolds, Simon (19 January 2017). "Mark Fisher's K-punk blogs were required reading for a generation". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 January 2021. After a period teaching in a further education college as a philosophy lecturer, [9] Fisher began his blog on cultural theory, k-punk, in 2003. [10] Music critic Simon Reynolds described it as "a one-man magazine superior to most magazines in Britain" [2] and as the central hub of a "constellation of blogs" in which popular culture, music, film, politics, and critical theory were discussed in tandem by journalists, academics, and colleagues. [11] Vice magazine later described his writing on k-punk as "lucid and revelatory, taking literature, music and cinema we're familiar with and effortlessly disclosing its inner secrets". [12] Fisher used the blog as a more flexible, generative venue for writing, a respite from the frameworks and expectations of academic writing. [13] Fisher also co-founded the message board Dissensus with writer Matt Ingram. [2] Career [ edit ] 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]

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 tho Izaakson, Jen. (12 August 2017) ‘Kill All Normies’ skewers online identity politics Feminist Current. Retrieved 23 November 2018. Mankowski, Guy (11 January 2018). "Remembering a Time Before the Great Culture War". Zer0 Books Youtube Channel . Retrieved 8 March 2021.It was the only time I let something of a personal nature come through and that set me on a path in terms of where I wanted to proceed in going solo. To anybody paying attention over the past decade, and more especially anyone invested in the aesthetic and political afterlife of theory, the writings of Mark Fisher have felt essential if at times frustrating. From the haunted screeds that appeared on his blog K-Punk, through the untimely meditations on precarity and the administration of affect in Capitalist Realism (2009), to his generalised presence today as melancholic – better, dysphoric – provocateur, Fisher’s has been a voice of relentless intelligence and (at his best) unabashed vulnerability in terms of fleeting personal revelation. A collection of his occasional pieces promises many things, chief among them a frank appraisal of the valence today of ‘hauntology’: the concept that he copped from Jacques Derrida and which has perhaps now had its time (again) as a way of thinking about culture and politics. Seaton, Lola (20 January 2021). "The ghosts of Mark Fisher". New Statesman . Retrieved 22 January 2021.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of my free time reading, I'm not the sort of person who goes around saying books have 'changed my life'. I struggle to see how even the most brilliant and memorable books I've read have actually changed me. But Ghosts of My Life might truly deserve that epithet. It is essentially a collection of essays about music, TV, film and novels, but it feels like something much bigger and more significant is shifting beneath its skin. This book has introduced me to entirely new ways of looking at and thinking about pop culture. It's a reading of the world through the lens of pop culture. Is it even possible to read Fisher’s essays on hauntology and not wonder how his thoughts and theories were intertwined with his own personal psychology and eventual death? Japan - Television: 4 March 1982 - "The Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV". nightporter.co.uk . Retrieved 31 May 2016.

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Renowned writer and K-Punk blogger Mark Fisher from Felixstowe took own life after battle with depression", Ipswich Star, 18 July 2017 I hadn’t thought of those ghosts in a while until I randomly came across a tweet by a wonderful lady , wonderfully named Kerry O’Shea Gorgone. She’s a good friend of a great friend of mine, Batman, aka Chris Brogan. She wrote : Having read Ghosts of My Life, I now know hauntology refers to the psychological state of being haunted by a future that, for one reason or another, never arrived in one of modernity's many vacant slots. It's a bit more complicated than that though, and if some Deleuzian theoretician cornered me in an alley and browbeat me to a definition, I'd be more inclined to run away than hold my ground and submit a response.