Spettri della mia vita. Scritti su depressione, hauntologia e futuri perduti

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. I Leggi tutto

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

Tutto rallenta: l'eterno presente del capitale “Sono un prigioniero. In qualche modo tornerò libero”. La politica ha privatizzato la mente umana, afferma Mark Fisher, seguendo nell'analisi del neoliberalismo capitalista il concetto centrale nelle teorie di Fredric Jameson in The Seeds of Time : ”a noi Leggi tutto

The twenty-first century is so technologically potent that it allows for discrete temporalities to bleed through from everywhere, causing a schizophrenic confrontation of glossy images and noises inside the depressive-psychotic millennials and zoomers. There is so much chatter; so much noise. Since

The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations. You're killing me, Zero Books, just killing me. Years ago, when Hope and Change were in the air my wife asked me what sort of revolutionary are you? I responded, I'm a janitor -- which is likely a quote from a Ge Leggi tutto

Fisher is always worth reading for the fascinating connections he makes between aspects of culture and the hypotheses he derives from those connections. This collection of old blog posts and short essays, however, is not among his most satisfying works. Interesting for those of us who grew up in the Leggi tutto

Don't be fooled, this is just a reprint. The ghosts of Mark Fisher's life are actually blogs, mostly from his old k-punk journal, which you can read for free online. Or print out at the library. The only thing to recommend Blogs of My Life as a physical book, besides the nice teal cover, is the intr Leggi tutto

A collection of blog posts and short essays from the past 10 years or so, loosely connected around the notion of "hauntology", which Fisher takes from Derrida's "Specters Of Marx" (although the word first appeared in Christine Brooke-Rose's "Amalgamemnon" in 1984). This contains some interesting vie Leggi tutto