Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
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Theo
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A good introduction to Hauntology As I did a degree in physics this sort of philosophical stuff is new and hard for me to get my head around。 As a book it certainly crystallised what Hauntology is and also provided a number of interesting essays。While politically Fisher and I are aligned， musically we are only adjacent。 I found myself listening to a lot of the less obvious music he discusses here （I am a fan of Tricky and Burial） and finding it much less compelling than his reviews and analysis A good introduction to Hauntology As I did a degree in physics this sort of philosophical stuff is new and hard for me to get my head around。 As a book it certainly crystallised what Hauntology is and also provided a number of interesting essays。While politically Fisher and I are aligned， musically we are only adjacent。 I found myself listening to a lot of the less obvious music he discusses here （I am a fan of Tricky and Burial） and finding it much less compelling than his reviews and analysis made it sound。Some of his social theorising was good but I think he frequently does sound like an old man railing against what the youth like in spite of his opening thesis stating he was sure it was about that。 I am only 5 or so years his junior so I feel well placed to note that。 。。。more
Joanna
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This book was not what I was expecting。 I thought it was a unitary text but it is actually a collection of reviews， articles and interviews that Fisher did/wrote during his lifetime。The most interesting part of this book is the concept of hauntology （the idea that we are haunted by possible futures that failed to happen）。 I thought the book was going to focus more on the psychology and sociology of this hauntological world， but instead， after explaining what hauntology is， it moves on to give a This book was not what I was expecting。 I thought it was a unitary text but it is actually a collection of reviews， articles and interviews that Fisher did/wrote during his lifetime。The most interesting part of this book is the concept of hauntology （the idea that we are haunted by possible futures that failed to happen）。 I thought the book was going to focus more on the psychology and sociology of this hauntological world， but instead， after explaining what hauntology is， it moves on to give a long list of examples of how hauntology is expressed in TV series， movies and， most of all， in music。 This may sound interesting， and to a certain extent it was， but it was too much of the same thing for me to be able to enjoy it， especially since I was not familiar with at least half of the artists that Fisher writes about。 Fisher does write about them in a very motivational way， which got me to want to explore these artists， but unfortunately I did not enjoy them very much when I finally got to listen to their music。 I think one has to be in a very specific mind frame or place in life to be able to enjoy the music that Fisher is referring to。 The interviews were more interesting than the reviews and it was these interviews that helped me get through the book， otherwise I would probably have given up on it。I think that， to fully enjoy this book， you have to have been in your late teens to early twenties during the 1990s and have a very close connection to British culture， preferably even having lived in the UK during the 90s。 Otherwise there will be lots of references to British culture that you will not understand。 Like me， you might end up googling them to find out more about them but that could end up being more work than enjoyment。 。。。more
Reid
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I mean。。。 what can I say？ I only wish for more。 I wish Mark Fisher was still here to rip through the edifices of popular media and culture under late-stage capitalism's most current crises， but alas， it is up to my generation of critical theorists to continue his unfinished work。 No modern academic has profoundly influenced my thoughts more than Fisher。 Recommend if depression！！！ I mean。。。 what can I say？ I only wish for more。 I wish Mark Fisher was still here to rip through the edifices of popular media and culture under late-stage capitalism's most current crises， but alas， it is up to my generation of critical theorists to continue his unfinished work。 No modern academic has profoundly influenced my thoughts more than Fisher。 Recommend if depression！！！ 。。。more
Anton
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На удивление актуальные тексты даже сегодня。 Не говоря уже о количестве пересечений объектов эссе с личным культурным опытом。
Ian Cleary
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Digestible and insightful， an uncomfortable lens on the predicament culture finds itself in。
Reda Fayad
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Ok i get it
L
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This book put a lot of my thoughts and anxieties about the world into words in a way that I couldn't。 A fair amount of the discussions especially later on in the book I didn't really get because I needed to have seen what was being spoken about Listening to the music discussed as I was reading the book was kinda magical though This book put a lot of my thoughts and anxieties about the world into words in a way that I couldn't。 A fair amount of the discussions especially later on in the book I didn't really get because I needed to have seen what was being spoken about Listening to the music discussed as I was reading the book was kinda magical though 。。。more
Corey Gray
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Was looking for philosophy but got pretentious musings on pop culture。
JQ Salazar
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From the Burial interview to the analysis of Sapphire and Steel to the ponderings on Inception， this one is packed with keen insights on futures that never happened and a past that keeps reoccurring。 RIP Fisher， mans was a fuckin’ goat。
Fabio Marcon
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Raccolta di recensioni， articoli e riflessioni ad alto tasso deprimente， in cui Fisher parte dai suoi ascolti musicali o dalle sue visioni cinematografiche/televisive per dimostrare la fine della storia che attende la fine del mondo。 Secondo Fisher viviamo in tempi tremendamente oscuri e distorti， tempi in cui il futuro nasce già decrepito e si alimenta solo con le rappresentazioni di ricordi e scarti di un tempo spettrale。 Chi conosce Mark Fisher e ha già letto The Weird and The Eerie ritroverà Raccolta di recensioni， articoli e riflessioni ad alto tasso deprimente， in cui Fisher parte dai suoi ascolti musicali o dalle sue visioni cinematografiche/televisive per dimostrare la fine della storia che attende la fine del mondo。 Secondo Fisher viviamo in tempi tremendamente oscuri e distorti， tempi in cui il futuro nasce già decrepito e si alimenta solo con le rappresentazioni di ricordi e scarti di un tempo spettrale。 Chi conosce Mark Fisher e ha già letto The Weird and The Eerie ritroverà il concetto di hauntologia attraverso un ampio focus sulla sua amata musica dub， con piacevoli escursioni nel glaciale postpunk esistenziale dei Joy Division o nel meraviglioso capitolo sulla psichedelia della luce di John Foxx。Consigliatissimo a chi， in assenza di prospettive dentro questo tardocapitalismo bastrdo， si sta abbandonando alla desolazione dentro il proprio altrove。 。。。more
José
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está muy bien， quizá algo por debajo de realismo capitalista porque es una colección de ensayos en lugar de una sola obra。 esto no implica que no tenga un hilo común， claro: la nostalgia y la retromanía， el modernismo popular y el estado del bienestar， la depresión y la idea de que no hay alternativa al capitalismo。 precisamente por ser una antología tiene puntos brillantes （los ensayos sobre the caretaker y el sonido del vinilo digitalizado， la electrónica de los 80， sapphire and steel y 'bueno está muy bien， quizá algo por debajo de realismo capitalista porque es una colección de ensayos en lugar de una sola obra。 esto no implica que no tenga un hilo común， claro: la nostalgia y la retromanía， el modernismo popular y el estado del bienestar， la depresión y la idea de que no hay alternativa al capitalismo。 precisamente por ser una antología tiene puntos brillantes （los ensayos sobre the caretaker y el sonido del vinilo digitalizado， la electrónica de los 80， sapphire and steel y 'bueno para nada'， una parte final muy personal） y algunos más mediocres （la parte cuatro puede llegar a ser tediosa）。 otro punto a destacar: la construcción de los argumentos usando "altos conceptos" de derrida， marx y el psicoanálisis y la "baja cultura" de drake， el grime y hollywood。en general muy recomendable， aunque mejor leer antes realismo capitalista para tener claro objetivos y terminología 。。。more
Steve Erickson
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Tracing the theme of hauntology across film， book and music reviews and interviews with musicians taken from his k-punk blog and magazines like the Wire and Film Quarterly， GHOSTS OF MY LIFE pursues philosophy in the form of accessible cultural criticism。 Taking on the way capitalism has destroyed our ability to imagine a space outside it through pop culture and wrecked the chance to create a "popular modernist" avant-garde has its risks， Fisher often wrote about fairly well-known artists whose Tracing the theme of hauntology across film， book and music reviews and interviews with musicians taken from his k-punk blog and magazines like the Wire and Film Quarterly， GHOSTS OF MY LIFE pursues philosophy in the form of accessible cultural criticism。 Taking on the way capitalism has destroyed our ability to imagine a space outside it through pop culture and wrecked the chance to create a "popular modernist" avant-garde has its risks， Fisher often wrote about fairly well-known artists whose work has stood the test of time : Joy Division， Tricky， Burial， John Le Carre， the Kubrick of THE SHINING。 But finding important meaning in obscure electronic records that came out in 2006 runs the risk of inflating personal taste to something much larger， although his writing is so compelling that I've made a list of music to track down after reading this。 It's a bigger problem that his concept of hauntology is so specific to a culture rooted in '70s; as an American， I don't share the reference points of BBC programs from that period， a decrepit but functional social democracy， and the British urban and rural landscape。 But as with his writing on depression （a subject central to his Joy Division essay）， Fisher was a gifted enough writer to make his personal experience resonate。 He also had a poetic touch， used sparingly: I wish there was more room for film criticism as formally adventurous as his piece on THE SHINING。 。。。more
Aaron Schuschu
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A capitalist unironically pines over the regression of social progress。
Christine
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capitalist realism is absolutely essential and reading fisher bring his perspective to contemporary culture was very insightful。。。 think a lot of his UK centrism was lost on this Canadian though。。 it helps that fisher’s writing itself is ~hauntingly~ beautiful
T
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Este livro é uma coletânea de artigos escritos por Mark Fisher a abordar principalmente a hauntologia de Derrida， a ideia de futuros perdidos e a depressão utilizando variadas referências culturais como a música de Burial， de Caretaker e da editora Ghost Box ou filmes como o The Shining ou o Inception。 O livro por vezes é um pouco desarticulado devido ao seu formato de coletânia e torna-se um pouco repetitivo porque usa os mesmos conceitos em artigos diferentes variando apenas as referências cul Este livro é uma coletânea de artigos escritos por Mark Fisher a abordar principalmente a hauntologia de Derrida， a ideia de futuros perdidos e a depressão utilizando variadas referências culturais como a música de Burial， de Caretaker e da editora Ghost Box ou filmes como o The Shining ou o Inception。 O livro por vezes é um pouco desarticulado devido ao seu formato de coletânia e torna-se um pouco repetitivo porque usa os mesmos conceitos em artigos diferentes variando apenas as referências culturais utilizadas。 Convém estar minimamente familiarizado com as referências que o autor utiliza para disfrutar ao máximo do livro。 。。。more
messermann
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Bin - leidlich - durch， fühle mich nun hilflos。 Ab zum Zukunftsstapel und ganz nach unten。
Giancarlo
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I fear that the ghosts of this book will be haunting my future for some time to come。 Like Capitalist Realism， this collection of essays is， at times， astonishingly bleak。 But it is more than worth it to weather the depressive barrage for the incredible insights （and media recommendation！） Mark Fisher has up his sleeve。
Liza Yantsen
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❤
Jason
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Quite the dower collection of essays on the British left and the attempts of cultural producers to change or respond to the rise of market thinking since the 80’s。 I get that it’s slightly different from nostalgia but it still reads like wallowing in the past。
Lucas Gelfond
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read everything in here except for the Inception essay because I want to watch the movie first。 A lot of this went over my head just bc I hadn't seen/read/listened to the works they were referring to， but Mark Fisher still manages to be engaging and write super interestingly about this， although admittedly sometimes it can get jargony/lapse into academic English。 Nonetheless， he has such an incredible way of writing about culture; my favorites in here were "No Longer the Pleasures: Joy Division， read everything in here except for the Inception essay because I want to watch the movie first。 A lot of this went over my head just bc I hadn't seen/read/listened to the works they were referring to， but Mark Fisher still manages to be engaging and write super interestingly about this， although admittedly sometimes it can get jargony/lapse into academic English。 Nonetheless， he has such an incredible way of writing about culture; my favorites in here were "No Longer the Pleasures: Joy Division，" "Now Then， Now Then: Jimmy Savile and 'the 70s on Trial'，" "London After the Rave: Burial" （one of my all time favorite pieces on music）， and "Another Grey World: Darkstar， James Blake， Kanye West， Drake， and 'Party Hauntology。'" Don't think I would rec this if I wasn't already a Mark Fisher fan and I think Capitalist Realism is still his better work 。。。more
Ari Getzlaf
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i don't need to read this to know it is the best book i've ever read。 i don't need to read this to know it is the best book i've ever read。 。。。more
Brandon Woodward
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3。5/5 Some interesting essays on music， film， and culture， dissecting each using the lens of hauntology。 Some essays were too tied to British culture to mean anything to me， others provided good music and movie recommendations。 Worth a read。
Alexander
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Un libro precioso y preciso。 Precioso: no por porque sea la exposición de algo bello， sino por una escritura pulcra （amén de una traducción fantástica） y descarnada， demasiado pertinente para los momentos actuales。 Preciso: porque interpela al lector de una manera tal que no podría ser capaz de soslayar las críticas ahí expresadas。 Conmina a una labor posterior。 Simplemente deprimente e inspirador al mismo tiempo。
Fai Ahmed
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“If Rave hasn’t yet happened， then there is no need to mourn it。 We can act as if we’re experiencing all this for the first time， that the future is still ahead of us。 The sadness ceases to be something we feel， and instead consists in our temporal predicament itself， and we are like Jack in the Gold Room of the Overlook Hotel， dancing to ghost songs， convincing ourselves that the music of yesteryear is really the music of today。”
hel
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This book gave me a lot: phrases to think about， inner knowledge about which topics do I prefer， a word （hauntology） to describe something I was feeling without comprehension， and a lot of cultural phenomena I had no idea about。 Will keep the book to re-read in a couple of years， which is unusual。
Nikola Jovic
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For sure an exciting and exhilarating read， which I honestly prefer to his Capitalist realism。 While Capitalist realism was a really concise distillation of some of the takes from critical theory， this one was more of a personal journey。 Doing an analysis of the concept of identity is not new to western thought， from Kierkegaard and onwards， but he does it kind of from the side while from the front he deals with the contemporary music scene and contrasts it with the scene from the 70s， and finds For sure an exciting and exhilarating read， which I honestly prefer to his Capitalist realism。 While Capitalist realism was a really concise distillation of some of the takes from critical theory， this one was more of a personal journey。 Doing an analysis of the concept of identity is not new to western thought， from Kierkegaard and onwards， but he does it kind of from the side while from the front he deals with the contemporary music scene and contrasts it with the scene from the 70s， and finds a way to connect it all with a personal thread running subtly through all chapters while at the same time sketching the way relations of material production have changed during late capitalism which facilitates depression。 I don't know if that can be a complaint， since it is written more in a polemical matter， but namedropping and fast brushing of points that refer to a certain classical thinkes I didn't really like （like， aren't you gonna leave a reference or suggest further reading， maybe I never saw that thing in that particular way and would like to find exactly where that particular point was made）， but that would be a problem if this was an academic study， which this is not， and Mark is upfront about that nad his disdain for the modern-day academia discourse。 。。。more
Adrian
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I think I would have enjoyed this considerably more if I had even a passing interest in rave culture。 Some of the articles where very interesting， particularly the introduction。 But a lot just didn't hit for me。 It did introduce me to a couple of artists and records i'd never considered before， but found myself skipping over quite a few of the articles in the last 2 thirds。 I think I would have enjoyed this considerably more if I had even a passing interest in rave culture。 Some of the articles where very interesting， particularly the introduction。 But a lot just didn't hit for me。 It did introduce me to a couple of artists and records i'd never considered before， but found myself skipping over quite a few of the articles in the last 2 thirds。 。。。more
Alicia SG
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La forma en que Mark Fisher reflexiona sobre política， música， sistema social y filosofía a través de referencias culturales y el impacto - que asumimos de formar consciente o no- sobre nosotros mismos， es brillante。Un libro para tener en la mesilla de noche y al que acudir cuando surgen teorías existencialistas o aceleracionistas en cualquier otra lectura。
Kelbaenor （Dan）
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Fisher is obviously a great writer， but for this whole book to really click for you you're gonna need an interest in his musical taste， British Art Rock， Post Punk， Noise， etc。 Some good essays but overall a mixed bag。 Fisher is obviously a great writer， but for this whole book to really click for you you're gonna need an interest in his musical taste， British Art Rock， Post Punk， Noise， etc。 Some good essays but overall a mixed bag。 。。。more
Nicholas Lyell
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