K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher

Nov 2018 · Watkins Media Limited

About this ebook

A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation.

This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004 - 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 "Acid Communism"; and a number of important interviews from the last decade. Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds.

Ratings and reviews

How can you make a convincing case for your hip leftist politics when you're obsessed by nursery-rhyme pop music--egalitarian on the surface but like the Hollywood movie industry a club exclusively for the kids of rich MIC families--that was invented and pushed by tyrannical elites to "touch the hearts" of the masses and zombify them as egotistical, daydreaming controlled opposition?

About the author

Mark Fisher is the author of Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie. He also blogged at k-punk.abstractdynamics.org and wrote regularly for other publications including the Guardian, the Wire, and New Statesmen. He was a Visiting Fellow in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London.