Mark Fisher (theorist)
| Mark Fisher | |
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Fisher at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011
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| Born |
11 July 1968 United Kingdom |
| Died | 13 January 2017 (aged 48) |
| Other names | k-punk |
| Known for |
Capitalist Realism (2009) k-punk blog (2003–2015) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
University of Hull (BA) University of Warwick (PhD) |
| Thesis | Flatline constructs : Gothic materialism and cybernetic theory-fiction (1999) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Critical theory, philosophy, music criticism, blogging, political theory |
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known as "k-punk", was a British writer, critic, cultural theorist, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture.
Fisher published several books, including the popular Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? (2009), and contributed to publications such as The Wire, The Guardian, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound. He was also the co-founder of Zero Books, and later Repeater Books. He died in January 2017, shortly before the publication of his latest book The Weird and the Eerie (2017).
Fisher earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and philosophy at Hull University (1989) and completed a PhD at the University of Warwick in 1999 titled Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction. During this time, Fisher was a founding member of the interdisciplinary collective known as the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. He spent a period teaching in a further education college as a philosophy lecturer and began his blog k-punk in 2003. It has been called "one of the most successful weblogs on cultural theory." Music critic Simon Reynolds described it as "a one-man magazine superior to most magazines in Britain" and as the central hub of a "constellation of blogs ... some of which are written by practicing philosophers or others involved in lumpen academia" in which popular culture, music, film, politics, and abstract theory were discussed in tandem. Fisher also co-founded the message board Dissensus with writer Matt Ingram.
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