i was at uni with Mark, and tho i don't remember us crossing paths i think it's likely that i did and i've just lost it along with most of the rest of my memories. which is apt i guess.
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
Fuck. Just read on Twitter. RIP.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Saturday, 14 January 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
Really sad about this. I used to enjoy being challenged by his blog posts, when I cared about such things. And I really did. And he was really unique.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 14 January 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
Never got around to reading capitalist realism but I liked the Michael Jackson book he put together
― wins, Saturday, 14 January 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
I was debating the other day on whether to preorder his new book that comes out at the end of the month. I remember when Google Reader still existed and checking for updates on a handful of blogs was part of my daily routine, it was a good day when he'd posted something new. I'd usually put it to the side until I had the time to sit and give his writing my full attention.
― mh đ, Saturday, 14 January 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I read his blog pretty religiously for some time. This is just terrible news.
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 14 January 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
RIP. Used to read his blog religiously, even if I didn't always follow/agree.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 14 January 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2017/01/14/mark-fisher-k-punk-capitalist-realism-has-died/
His wife, Zoë Fisher, confirmed his death on her personal Facebook page, saying he had taken his own life.
― j., Saturday, 14 January 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
Excellent interview from 2014. http://www.neromagazine.it/n/?p=20620
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
Ahh fuck, so terrible to hear this. RIP
― The boy who cried 'wolf' in a crowded theatre (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
Oh no.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
RIP, this is awful news. I always got a lot out of his writing.
― Gavin, Leeds, Sunday, 15 January 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
that nero interview is good. if there are any other good interview links post them here. he was swell in conversation.
― scott seward, Sunday, 15 January 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
http://blissout.blogspot.com/2017/01/rip-mark-fisher_14.html
― j., Sunday, 15 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=13999
https://itself.blog/2017/01/14/mark-fisher/
― j., Sunday, 15 January 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/2017/01/negativity-not-pessimism-rip-mark-fisher.html
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Sunday, 15 January 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/johnfoxxandthemaths/posts/1708297872529197
― Andy K, Sunday, 15 January 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
it's really striking how many people there are saying that reading his blog was a formative experience for them
― soref, Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Through twitter I have been surprised at the range of people saying he was a big deal for them. Capitalist Realism has made quite an impact.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
I just read capitalist realism over the break. Good read, rip
― if young satchmo don't trumpet i'm gon shoot you (m bison), Monday, 16 January 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link
xp it's apparently sold an obscene number of copies for what it is, into the 10,000s.
his writing on mental health in recent years was really remarkable.
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 16 January 2017 02:53 (seven years ago) link
This is a big blow. His blog was formative and inspiring for me as well, for both theory and his ability to weave (pop) culture into his ideas and writing.
Had just ordered his latest book.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 January 2017 11:58 (seven years ago) link
David Stubbs remembrance in combination with a previously unpublished interview with Agata Pyzik:
http://thequietus.com/articles/21572-mark-fisher-rip-obituary-interview
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 January 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
owen hatherley:
http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/imet-mark-for-first-time-in-pub-in.html
― NickB, Monday, 16 January 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
It's not really the right time, but I wonder if he knew what effect his work had had/was having? What would that knowing have looked like, by which I mean, how do any of us measure what we've achieved? Ah, christ. It's such a damn shame.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Monday, 16 January 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
That Hatherley piece is excellent, as is Adam Harper's.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Monday, 16 January 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
http://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com/2017/01/vale-mark-fisher.html
I am grateful to Mark for being one of the very first people to take an interest in my writing. By this time I had already started blogging, but it made me feel like it was something worth doing, that it could be made to matter. I am far from the only person who felt this way. Douglas Murphy: âWithout him and the other theory bloggers, it wouldnât have occurred to me to even begin writingâ. Evan Calder Williams: âReading k-punk was formative to me, to why I wanted to write online, in hopes that other people who I didn't know would stumble onto something I wrote and feel like there was a shared world that could be understood and fought.â Owen again: âSpeaking to Mark made me a writer who took seriously what I did, as he did.â Comments like these are the constant of the tributes, in long-form or social media, that have followed the news of Markâs death, and speak not only of his influence but also of an incredibly generous mind. As Juliet Jacques noted in another lovely tribute: âHe introduced many of us to each other, and gave us the confidence to combine the cultural, personal, and political in ways that felt thrilling and liberating.â I can certainly say that, while I never met Mark in person, it was through Mark that I met a number of people whose friendship and comradeship I treasure.
― j., Monday, 16 January 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/45139/mark-fisher-1968-2017
― j., Monday, 16 January 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
owen hatherley's tribute is very moving.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/mental-health-political-issue here's an example of that mental health writing i mentioned, difficult tho it is to read right now
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 16 January 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
Repeater Books have tweeted this link to a page where people can donate to a memorial fund to support Fisher's wife and son
https://twitter.com/RepeaterBooks/status/821697398833553408
― soref, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 12:54 (seven years ago) link
I missed this thread bump until this morning. This news has broken my heart. Ghosts of my Life was great and his blog pieces on the Fall were unparalleled.
I wish he had been able to continue.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
reynolds
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/18/mark-fisher-k-punk-blogs-did-48-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Waiting for what Fisher had to say is a sensation I recall only too vividly. I remember the electric anticipation of those early-to-mid 2000s mornings when the first thing I would do after making some tea was check whether K-punk had posted. K-punk, Fisherâs online alter-ego, was the hub of a blog circuit in which I took part, and which for a glorious moment brought back the intellectual fervour of the postpunk music press.âIt wasnât only about music and music wasnât only about music,â Fisher once said of weekly papers such as the NME. âIt was a medium that made demands on you.â More than any other blog of that time, K-punk reanimated the polymath, autodidact spirit of the golden-age rock press, where music held a privileged status â but film, TV, fiction and politics were in the mix too.
âIt wasnât only about music and music wasnât only about music,â Fisher once said of weekly papers such as the NME. âIt was a medium that made demands on you.â More than any other blog of that time, K-punk reanimated the polymath, autodidact spirit of the golden-age rock press, where music held a privileged status â but film, TV, fiction and politics were in the mix too.
― j., Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
Reading through these donations has got me tearful for someone I never met but wish I had. Some people have given hundreds others two or three pounds. Amazingly, it's at ÂŁ18,000 as I write this. That's just incredible.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
over ÂŁ24,000 now, fantastic. considering how it had only been in the last couple of years that he'd managed to get full-time work teaching there's no doubt this was necessary and will be invaluable
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 19 January 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
I'm going to buy the new book ASAP
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 19 January 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
looks like the US release is Jan 31
amazon just sent me a message saying it's eligible for day-of-release delivery
― mh đ, Thursday, 19 January 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
alex niven:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/mark-fisher-capitalist-realism-vampire-castle/
― NickB, Thursday, 19 January 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
xpost it's already in the kindle store so i'm getting that
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 19 January 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
Man, I would love to have seen where he was going with the whole 'Acid Communism' concept...
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 January 2017 04:51 (seven years ago) link
Some hints here perhaps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deZgzw0YHQI
Albeit operating at a pretty generalised level.
― The boy who cried 'wolf' in a crowded theatre (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 22 January 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
I feel like the 'negativity not pessimism' phrase from Adam Harper's blog post is really key to understanding Fisher's whole enterprise - it's certainly the aspect that took the longest time to 'click' for me personally.
― The boy who cried 'wolf' in a crowded theatre (Mr Andy M), Monday, 23 January 2017 00:02 (seven years ago) link
I don't remember starting this thread but I do remember reading a lot of K Punk about a decade ago and I exchanged a few emails with Mark. A lot of his cultural obsessions were mine too and I was intrigued by the hauntology concept.
Capitalist Realism was really good although perhaps a bit overtaken by events now. We longed for the end of ne-capitalism but little did we know that it would be replaced with something even worse.
Very sad to hear of his death, and with his insistence that personalising depression is capitalism's way of absolving itself of the blame, it's hard not to see a kind of world despair in his suicide, regardless of his personal circumstances.
RIP Mark Fisher, we need more thinkers like him
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 23 January 2017 09:10 (seven years ago) link
neoliberalism I meant
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 23 January 2017 09:12 (seven years ago) link
This was beautiful
http://siobhanmckeown.com/goodbye-dear-friend/
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
Didn't see this posted yet, but here's Fisher speaking about designer communism at Digital Bauhaus last year: https://vimeo.com/171577013
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 03:54 (seven years ago) link
http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-memoriam-mark-fisher/
In fact, I think itâs that effort to establish a new radical public that will be remembered as Markâs animating objective, and his successes in doing so which will be remembered as his greatest and most important achievement. Itâs a common thread in his endeavors from the days of the CCRU, through his curatorship of the âDissensusâ internet forum (an early incubator of the blog scene, which I think was launched in the early 2000s), up to his last activities of recent years. His books were as much as anything adverts for the very idea of critical thought, aimed mainly at an audience that had no prior access to cultural studies or radical philosophy â invitations to a mass of often isolated and oppressed individuals to come and join a great community of liberated thought.
― j., Tuesday, 14 March 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
longer version of LARB's jeremy gilbert entry here: https://jeremygilbertwriting.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/my-friend-mark33.pdf
at least i think it's longer, i only checked very quickly: i don't agree with all of it but as well as being very personal and affectionate it's good on some of the flaws in MF's thinking and approach as it evolved
(tho much too uncritical, as everything i've read has been, on his music-writing and thinking, which is absolutely his weakest work -- tho of course also the area i am going to be most territorial about) (one day i might write this up, but not without a lot of thought and self-examination)
we'd kind of fallen out, not bitterly but it felt a bit irreparably, for reasons it seems otiose to rehearse here and now⊠i've thought about him every day since he died
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
i should read (and reread part) of that when home from work
on a related note, i was especially queasy at the idea of a need for "left accelerationism" someone was arguing for on twitter the other day. just, no
― mh đ, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
http://blissout.blogspot.com/2017/10/leaving-some-signs-now-legend.html
In a way, it's a shame Burial stopped doing the interviews - he was almost born to do them, even more than make music! He's better at describing his own music and motives than any of his critics, except K-punk himself. I remember Mark telling me after he'd done the interview that he couldn't believe his own ears - the stuff that Burial was coming out with was so poetic and evocative, too good to be true almost. A dream of an interview. Anwen Crawford told me of a similar experience: as I recall it, it was like she was hypnotized, sent into a trance by his voice over the phone. But at same time he was completely real and genuine - somehow down to earth and an ethereal being floating out there at the same time....
― j., Saturday, 28 October 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link