Mark Fisher (writer)
| 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) |
| Education | University of Hull (B.A.), University of Warwick (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Critical theory, philosophy, music criticism, blogging, political theory |
| Notable work |
Capitalist Realism (2009) k-punk blog (2003–2015) |
| Website | k-punk |
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 contributed to publications such as The Wire, The Guardian, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound, and published several books, including the popular Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? (2009) and Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (2014). 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 Ph.D. at Warwick University 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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