Mentions (30)
"Bronze Age Pevert/Adam Curtis/Mark Fischer"
"Guy had this rather convincingly elaborated theory about how the entire post-WWII avant-garde, both in terms of high culture and pop, was a product of the Western European welfare states providing access to the means of cultural creation to disaffected working class weirdos (from the Beatles to free"
"Or have we squeezed out most of what we can get out of music as an artform by now and are doomed to live out a hauntological musical ouroboros. But then again mark fisher or derrida never listened to The Barter 6…"
"Mark Fisher called them the most gentrified band he ever heard, I believe. I see his point now."
"In Capitalist Realism Fisher writes 'Capitalist postmodernity is not as incredulous as it would appear to be, something that jeweler Gerald Ratner famously found to his cost. Ratner precisely tried to circumvent the Symbolic and 'tell it how it is, describing the inexpensive jewelry his shops sold a"
"I'm basically just paraphrasing Mark Fisher so go read his stuff for a better explanation, but yeah."
"Without giving away toooo many identifiable details about my life ,I did art history at one of the unis he taught at. At the time I had absolutely no idea about his reputation and I only picked his module because it was called popular modernism and I thought i could just sit back and watch music vid"
"And I think one of the things that marks this community is a really strong longing for connection to a vibrant creative community, which reminded me of the lost culture of "popular modernism" Mark Fisher laments in *Ghosts of My Life*"
"I'm blasting Burial while i cook shrimp tonight. RIP. U would've Loved dasha's movie"
"Every time I try to read any of his work I can feel myself getting depressed. And not in a 'oh I read Virginia Woolf and related to her sorrow' kind of way. I read him and I can feel myself getting sick. It's like I'm exposing myself to some kind of infection. I don't think I can separate his litera"
"Idk maybe Mark Fisher wrote what I think alot of us probably intuitively felt about that moment.. like even our college soundtrack of (insert underground artist) , Lil Wayne, Kanye, Rihanna, Bloc Party, EDM, Burial, Justice, and everything else seemed to be occurring under circumstances & upheavals "
"If Mark Fisher (pbuh RIP) was still alive he would have a lot to say about these British freaks, it's almost like they were manufactured in a lab to be as offensive to that man's sensibilities as possible but here's a mark fisher copycat who basically did the same thing and it's serviceable"
"doesn't help that i've been becoming increasingly interested in the work of simon reynolds mark fisher etc. and idk i think i have an issue where i always want to be part of some bigger countercultural movement."
"Hey y'all, I was just thinking about Mark Fisher and his ideas/capitalist realism and stuff, with all this crazy stuff going on, trying to wrap my head around it… Does anyone have recommendations on who to look into that might shed some light on what's going on, or any thinkers that continue or crit"
"There's no way people who are scared off by words like "myriad" and sentences longer than 10 words have read Nietzsche or Hegel or Mark Fisher or Proust or whatever else it is you pseuds have seen on 4chan and understood any of it."
"Is the war machine just channeling this inevitable consequence of our economic system into something it can use? Is this just Mark Fisher proven right yet again?"
"http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011204.html"
"If Mark Fisher (pbuh RIP) was still alive he would have a lot to say about these British freaks, it's almost like they were manufactured in a lab to be as offensive to that man's sensibilities as possible"
"doesn't help that i've been becoming increasingly interested in the work of simon reynolds mark fisher etc."
"I was just thinking about Mark Fisher and his ideas/capitalist realism and stuff, with all this crazy stuff going on, trying to wrap my head around it…"
"Would love to see a something similar to the Mark Fischer episode where they go through some TLP posts"
"Not trying to just paraphrase Mark Fisher but wondering if this eats away at y'all every day"
"every gadd'amn day i wish jean baudrillard and mark fischer and walter benjamin and guy debord and susan sontag and g. w. f. hegel himself were all here to watch the hulu continuation with me"
"And he's a Boston tough guy/intellectual who raps about Derrida"
"Is the war machine just channeling this inevitable consequence of our economic system into something it can use? Is this just Mark Fisher proven right yet again?"
"http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011204.html"
"Fisher is one of those authors I've heard about a lot but who's work seems anomalous. Would you recommend him? I've also heard he mainly talks about pop culture, does he ever deviate from that?"
"Meredith Graves talking about Mark Fisher"
"I met this really smart and cool girl and we hit it off well and she even brought Fisher up first"
"Mark Fisher cancellation of the future yada ydada"