Mark Fisher

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.

Is There No Alternative?

Capitalist Realism

Collected essays on popular culture by a major critic.

Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Ghosts of My Life

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The Weird and the Eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling. Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie. These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan.

The Weird and the Eerie

A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016. Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element -- the classroom -- outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished. Beginning with that most fundamental of questions -- "Do we really want what we say we want?" -- Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so. For Fisher, this process of consciousness raising was always, fundamentally, psychedelic -- just not in the way that we might think...

Postcapitalist Desire

Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds, this comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004 Ð 2016, the collection will include some of the best writings from his seminal blog k-punk; a selection of his brilliantly insightful film, television and music reviews; his key writings on politics, activism, precarity, hauntology, mental health and popular modernism for numerous websites and magazines; his final unfinished introduction to his planned work on ÒAcid CommunismÓ; and a number of important interviews from the last decade.

The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)

K-Punk

Donna Haraway's celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert" has given this issue a certain currency in contemporary cyber-theory. But what is in- teresting about Haraway's remark - its challenge to the oppositional think- ing that sets up free will against determinism, vitalism against mechanism - has seldom been processed by a mode of theorizing which has tended to reproduce exactly the same oppositions. These theoretical failings, it will be argued here, arise from a resistance to pursuing cybernetics to its limits (a failure evinced as much by cyberneticists as by cultural theorists, it must be added). Unraveling the implications of cybernetics, it will be claimed, takes us out to the Gothic flatline. The Gothic flatline designates a zone of radical immanence. And to theorize this flatline demands a new approach, one committed to the theorization of immanence. This thesis calls that approach Gothic Materialism.

Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction

Flatline Constructs

Realismo capitalista

Matt Colquhoun

A short zine collecting an introduction to the concept by Matt Colquhoun that appeared in 'krisis journal for contemporary philosophy Issue 2, 2018: Marx from the Margins' and the unfinished introduction to the unfinished book on Acid Communism that Mark Fisher was working on before his death in 2017. "In this way ‘Acid’ is desire, as corrosive and denaturalising multiplicity, flowing through the multiplicities of communism itself to create alinguistic feedback loops; an ideological accelerator through which the new and previously unknown might be found in the politics we mistakenly think we already know, reinstantiating a politics to come." —Matt Colquhoun

Acid Communism

Exiting the Vampire Castle

An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

Andrzej Karalus

czy nie ma alternatywy?

Realizm kapitalistyczny

K-punk: výběr z textů

A Tale of Wisdom and Wealth

The Instant Millionaire

Wie eine Kultur aussieht, in der der kapitalistische Realismus als tiefgreifende und omnipräsente Atmosphäre regiert, wird von Fisher analysiert - inklusive der Frage: Wo sind Alternativen zum kapitalistischen Realismus zu suchen?

Symptome unserer kulturellen Malaise

Kapitalistischer Realismus ohne Alternative?

Scritti politici. K-punk. Vol. 1

رغبة ما بعد الرأسمالية

Após 1989, o capitalismo se apresentou com sucesso como o único sistema político-econômico aparentemente viável no mundo – uma situação que só começou a ser questionada para fora dos círculos mais duros da esquerda a partir da crise bancária de 2008, quando começa-se a entender a urgência de se desmontar a ideia de que "não existe alternativa". Este livro, escrito pelo filósofo e crítico cultural britânico Mark Fisher, desnuda o desenvolvimento e as principais características do "realismo capitalista", conceito que delineia a estrutura ideológica em que estamos vivendo. Usando exemplos de política, filmes, ficção, trabalho e educação, argumenta que o "realismo capitalista" captura todas as áreas da experiência contemporânea. Mas também mostra que, devido a uma série de inconsistências e falhas internas ao programa de realidade do Capital, o capitalismo é, de fato, tudo — menos realista. "Realismo capitalista" revela que a ideologia está hoje assentada positiva e diretamente na crueza material do capital. Sobre um chão a partir do qual não se veem alternativas no horizonte, ocorre que é possível revolver o solo: a fratura e a revolução estão estruturalmente sob os pés. — Alysson Leandro Mascaro, professor da USP "Um clássico cult". –– Hua Hsu, The New Yorker "Uma leitura rápida e divertida". — Socialist Standard "Uma leitura provocativa e necessária... para quem quiser falar seriamente sobre a política da educação hoje". — Times Higher Educational Supplement "Mark Fisher foi o líder intelectual de uma geração" — Alex Niven, New Staterman "Mark Fisher foi prolífico, penetrante, espirituoso, humano e onívoro" — Meagan Day, Jacobin

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