Book description
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carre, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others. THIS…
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1 author picked Ghosts of My Life as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Although the title of this list mentions the “wyrd and eerie,” I didn’t choose Mark Fisher’s brilliant The Weird and the Eerie, but rather his wonderfully insightful Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures.
Fisher didn’t “create” hauntology (that would be Jacques Derrida), but he was its most innovative and deepest thinker. Able to take complex theoretical concepts and explain them using creative analysis of cultural media, Fisher combined philosophical, political, social, and artistic analyses into the corpus of what we now recognize as the core tenets of hauntology.
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From William's list on The best books on hauntology, folk horror, and all things wyrd and eerie.
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