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What is Capitalist Realism?
Assuming I haven’t completely misunderstood Mark Fisher’s point then I’d argue this is one of the most striking examples of capitalist realism I’ve ever encountered. It was posted as a comment on this...
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At what point do addictive games become sinister?
Prior to christmas I found myself installing Candy Crush on my iPad. Less than a week later I forced myself to delete it, not least of all because of the dawning realisation that I was going to do...
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Ghosts of Sociologists Past in the Accelerated Academy
I’m currently reading Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher. It’s an interesting book which explores a condition in which “life continues, but time has...
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Things I’ve been reading recently #2
Following on from this post: I wasn’t enormously impressed by Malign Velocities. I had assumed it was a book about social acceleration but was surprised to find it’s actually about accelerationism. To...
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Mark Fisher on using social media rather than being used by it
“In sum, the obsession with the web, its monopolisation of any idea of the new, has served capitalist realism rather than undermined it. Which does not mean, naturally, that we should abandon the web,...
View ArticlePost-Pandemic Hedonism: Thoughts on Mark Fisher’s Final Book
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this edited collection of Mark Fisher’s final lectures, transcribed from audio recordings of a series which was interrupted by his untimely death. There’s a slight...
View ArticleNick Land’s Poeticisation of Capital’s Obscenity
I thought this was an incredibly powerful description of Nick Land’s project by Mark Fisher, on pg 42 of Post-Capitalist Desire. It’s a position I’d understood intellectually but reading it left me...
View ArticleMagical voluntarism: I got this
‘Magical voluntarism’ is such a useful phrase from the late Mark Fisher. It’s defined by his student Matt Colquhoun on loc 859 of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher as “the imaginary...
View ArticleWho is writing this blog?
This is a lovely reflection from Mark Fisher on the split self involved in writing, as part of a “a performance, but not one that is false”: A theme here is blogging’s tendency to summon a strange...
View ArticleThe creative freedom of post-work
From Post-Capitalist Desire by Mark Fisher, pg 77: I just think about the Beatles. What does a post-work society look like? It kind of looks like what life was like for them, doesn’t it? They didn’t...
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