It is a sarcastic jab at how she views herself and how her "ex-lovers" only wanted to be with her to increase their fame. k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016) | Repeater Books | Repeater Books". Repeater Books . Retrieved 16 July 2018. 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 (2009). Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. Zero Books. ISBN 978-1846943171.

Rather than ridiculing Mensch’s disingenuous argument – as her fellow contestants do – Fisher takes it seriously. The protesters, he explains to his students, “may claim, ethically, that they want to live in a different world but libidinally, at the level of desire, they are committed to living within the current capitalist world”. Mensch’s criticism is, Fisher says, part of “the negative inspiration for the course, where I’m going to pose the question: is there really a desire for something beyond capitalism?” 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?Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun). London: Repeater Books, 2020. ISBN 9781913462482

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 Fisher, Mark, Goldsmiths, University of London". gold.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015 . Retrieved 1 August 2015. If you’re into really obscure music, this book is for you, as well. I was introduced to a few new musicians that I was not familiar with, but one of my favorite pairs of essays was about The Caretaker, who I know well. Japan - Television: 4 March 1982 - "The Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV". nightporter.co.uk . Retrieved 31 May 2016.PDF / EPUB File Name: Ghosts_of_My_Life__Writings_on_Depression_-_Mark_Fisher.pdf, Ghosts_of_My_Life__Writings_on_Depression_-_Mark_Fisher.epub Australian singer-songwriter Amy Vee released a cover of the song on her independently released 2019 album Same Skin, [16] as well as a live version on her 2023 live album, Live at Lizottes. Confronted with capital’s intense semiotic pollution, its encrustation of the urban environment with idiotic sigils and imbecilic slogans no-one – neither the people who wrote them nor those at whom they are aimed – believes, you often wonder: what if all the effort that went into this flashy trash were devoted to a public good?”