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

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Reynolds, Simon (19 January 2017). "Mark Fisher's K-punk blogs were required reading for a generation". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 January 2021.

k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016) (edited by Darren Ambrose, foreword by Simon Reynolds). London: Repeater Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1912248292

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Sleevenotes for the Caretaker's Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia" was exactly the sort of essay I was hoping for from this volume. It helps that I own two Caretaker albums. This playful essay declares in perfect terms the displacement, both in location and time, encountered when one listens to the album. This is a key hauntological essay that, along with the interview with The Caretaker, which follows, strikes at the heart of the matter: 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.

Seaton, Lola (20 January 2021). "The ghosts of Mark Fisher". New Statesman . Retrieved 22 January 2021. so this is goodbye Джуниор Бойс. Было приятно натыкаться на знакомые имена. А еще у книги был шарящий редактор, что выглядит просто божественным вмешательством.His tastes were sometimes questionable – he went from championing bloodlessly cerebral music that fulfilled theoretical prejudices in lieu of offering any visceral thrill to eulogising scoldy sloganeers Sleaford Mods – and there are those to whom the dated concept of hauntology is a mere expression of middle-aged lassitude. But none of that should put the curious off this amphetamine rush of a book. When Fisher got going about his passions – Burial, the Caretaker, jungle, David Peace – there was no one like him. If you missed it first time round, or even if you didn’t, this book will light up your brain like few others. Ironically, it’s hopeful too: a UK that can produce the likes of Fisher is not beaten yet.

Fisher, Mark (22 November 2013). "Exiting the Vampire Castle". Archived from the original on 4 February 2018. The unique pleasure in reading Fisher is that, whereas other first-rate critics – think Geoff Dyer or Brian Dillon – will generally apply a refined critical-intellectual apparatus to commensurately rarefied subjects, Fisher’s fanatical loyalty is to pop culture in its instinctively avant-garde strains. A piece on the prematurely canonised German author WG Sebald criticises him for writing “as if many of the developments in 20th-century experimental fiction and popular culture had never happened”. Fisher will easefully cite Deleuze or Lacan or draw comparisons with De Chirico or Antonioni, but typically in service of analysing films such as Terminator or Children of Menor the work of some post-dubstep breakbeat sorcerer. Fisher critiqued economics, claiming that it was a bourgeois "science" that moulds reality after its presuppositions, rather than critically examining reality. As he stated it himself: See also: NS Recommends: New books from Bryan Washington, Jonty Claypole, Raven Leilani and Ijeoma Oluo] 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 DetailsPostcapitalist Desire is a poignant evocation of Fisher’s way of thinking and communicating, and of his ability to engage his students. As a transcript of what are closer to seminars than lectures, the text is digressive, and nothing like as luminous as his prose can be. The book’s publication attests to the tremendous hunger for Fisher’s writing – a hunger sharpened by the painful knowledge that he will never produce anything else. 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…” 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 :

a b Fisher, Mark (30 May 2014). Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Zero Books. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-78099-226-6.

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