Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures


'A must read for modernists, and for anyone who misses the future.' Bob Stanley, musician, journalist, author, and film producer

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the 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 Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.
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ChrisCarne
Jan 02, 2023
6/10 stars
I was of an age with Fisher and we share a lot of cultural reference points and to some extent musical taste so much of his work has at least the pleasures of recognition and usually much more than that. Unfortunately, this is a rag bag of reprinted (and still available in that form) blog posts which don't always work so well when read as a block or with the distance of time. The introduction and early essays on the haunting of the present by the 70s are possibly of most interest and while I like Burial, The Caretaker and the Ghost Box crowd well enough, I quite soon realised I could live without reading another essay on hauntology ever again. Overall, good enough if you've not read the blog but there are far more essential books by Fisher that you might want to spend your pennies on.

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