Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher was the author of 'Capitalist Realism' and 'Ghosts of my Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures' (both published by Zer0 books). His writing appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Film Quarterly, The Wire, The Guardian and Frieze. He died in 2017.

‘Culture has lost the ability to grasp the present’

An extract from Mark Fisher’s ‘Ghosts of My Life’

By Mark Fisher

/ 15 Sep 2022

‘Culture has lost the ability to grasp the present’

Exiting the Vampire Castle

We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take place without fear of

By Mark Fisher

/ 24 Nov 2013

How to kill a zombie: strategizing the end of neoliberalism

An ideology which promised to liberate us from state socialist bureaucracy has instead imposed a bureaucracy all of its own. This only looks like a paradox if we take neoliberalism at its word.

By Mark Fisher

/ 18 Jul 2013