Then again, it's the way of the world isn't it? Be the first to ask a question about Ghosts of My Life. He writes regularly for The Wire, frieze, New Statesman, and Sight & Sound. Comes and goes, but leads nowhere. Start by marking “Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2017. But the reliance of current artists on styles that were established long ago suggests that the current moment is in the grip of a formal nostalgia, of which more shortly. And yet, taken simply as a set of cultural coordinates, the contents of Ghosts of My Life seem remarkably comforting and familiar rather than energising, a veritable playlist of fortysomething faves. The ghosts of Mark Fisher's life are actually blogs, mostly from his old k-punk journal, which you can read for free online. Mark Fisher (1968 – 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and Repeater Books. Ships from and sold by Book Depository US. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2019, lovingly written celebration and lament of cultural development or arrestment or maybe parallel universes or infinite possibilities within narrow confines, saved by music but not forever. There was really no way this was ever going to get anything less than a five-star rating. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher, Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Penguin Classics), Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International (Routledge Classics), The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right, After the brilliance of Capitalist Realism, Ghosts Of My Life confirms Mark Fisher's role as our greatest and most trusted navigator of these times out of joint, through all their frissons and ruptures, among all their apparitions and spectres, past, present and future.--David Peace, author of the Red Riding Quartet and Red or Dead. Non mi fanno impazzire le recensioni musicali di Fisher, la sensazione di star leggendo un blog random è sempre troppo forte. I bought this after enjoying ‘Capitalist Realism’ and having followed the author’s blog (k-punk) on and off for a number of years. (Mind you, Fisher is a writer for whom ‘literature’ is merely an insult, so he consistently overrates adolescent stuff like H.P.
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. If you're so inclined, I wrote more extensively on this topic here: Another work I wish I had discovered back when I was writing my thesis on melancholia and cultural production. This would be a better book if I knew all the media it talks about, Því miður var þessi bók frekar mikil vonbrigði, og er það aðalega vegna þess að undirtitill bókarinnar og blaðrið á bakhlið hennar virðast lofa manni eitthverju sem er lítið sem ekkert til staðar í bókinni. I closed my eyes and my ears to this here book and that has kept the ghosts from getting at me too.
I've read this book after the news of Mark's suicide, and the whole reading inevitably became colored with this black sadness of knowing about this tragedy. This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. They were an obscure bunch.