Mark Fisher

Born 11 July 1968 · Died 13 January 2017

Mark Fisher, best known for his blogging as k-punk, was a British writer, critic, 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.

Books by Mark Fisher in order

Books by Mark Fisher in the order they were published, from Capitalist Realism (2009) to K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2018).

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Franco BerardiWrites on the crisis of the future and of cultural imagination under late capitalism, close in theme to Fisher's account of lost futures.
Frederic JamesonHis account of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism is an important precursor to Fisher's argument about culture and economics.
Jacques DerridaIntroduced the idea of hauntology in Specters of Marx, which Fisher adapted for his own analysis of culture.
H. P. LovecraftCentral to the weird fiction Fisher discusses in The Weird and the Eerie, and a useful starting point for readers of that book.
Simon ReynoldsA music critic who writes about retro culture and the sense of stalled time in pop, close to Fisher's writing on music and hauntology.
M. R. JamesA writer of English ghost stories whose eerie effects are a reference point for Fisher's distinction between the weird and the eerie.

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