Mark Fisher

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Ghosts of British Life May 09, 2023

One summer, when I was a student, I worked at the Tower of London for a few weeks. The work itself was pretty soul destroying, but in my breaks I could wander anywhere I wanted within the Tower’s precincts. Chatting to Beefeaters was a particular hig...

The Ghosts of Mark Fisher January 29, 2021

When the cultural critic and theorist Mark Fisher took his own life on 13 January 2017 at the age of 48, he was a third of a way through delivering a lecture series titled “Postcapitalist Desire”, which he had devised as part of an MA course in conte...