There are places where water marks the boundary of another possibility of the world.

This shimmering surface separates two realities. On one side, the city that recognizes itself. On the other, the vast expanse of Leguinée, where concrete dreams, graffiti preserve voices, and time flows slowly beneath the asphalt.

Mark Fisher reciting On Vanishing Land becomes the Papa Legba of a geography with an invisible threshold.

To cross the bright, polluted waterline is to disappear from a decaying world and slip into the folds of vanishing.

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Hey everyone! First of all sorry if my english is not the best. In "The Weird and the Eerie" Fisher talks about how both concepts are a way of dealing with or expressing the "outside". Both concepts operate contrary to Freud´s psychoanalytical procedures by denouncing some type of otherness that is not compatible with anything familiar. Freud´s theory explains that which is ominous by tracing it back to childhood complexes and traumas that have been repressed (this I think is one part of what Fisher means by the notion of the "inside", but it is not all of it), while Fisher is occupied in affirming that which cannot be naturalized by any means. I was wondering if there is any more literature you could recomend in order to expand on the very abstract definitions he gives of the outside and the inside 

Mark wrote about Kneale's The Stone Tape back in 2003, noting that "all recordings are ghosts". But what happens when there are so many recordings that most of them go unplayed?

I wrote a short piece that starts with two of my favorite 'abandoned' pieces of digital art, before moving on to wondering about what will happen to all the archived ghost-traces of our own lives once there is no one to witness them.

https://morbidcuriosity.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-our-lives

There was a website posted here a while ago that was a collection of all Marks Lectures and YT videos and some cool jungle mixes, I cant seem to find it and stupidly I didn't book mark it.

Anybody got an idea of what i'm talking about?

Just wondering if Mark ever would have written about the dark souls video-game serues, what would he have made of it in writting abiut it

I actually was recommended to him by a poster in this subreddit and been absolutely devouring all of his stuff over the weekend. Thought I'd share as his critiques of capitalism align well with what Mark said.

Building on Fisher's argument in Capitalist Realism that the triumph of capitalism has erased the conditions that make cultural "newness" possible, this short essay argues that the advent of AI-music and vibe-curated YouTube playlists have taken Fisher's concerns to a new level.

As an engine which produces new combinations of past forms, AI is furthering the vision of cultural decline that Fisher identified in his analysis of Children of Men.

I conclude by identifying some of the material conditions that make speculative cultural creation possible, in particular affordable spaces of convivial exchange.

Hey just wrote this would love to hear thoughts

I'm a Sociology and Politics student and i'm struggling to come up with ideas for my dissertation. I'm particularly interested in Mark Fisher, having read, capitalist realism, ghosts of my life, postcapitalist desire and parts of K-punk.

I'd love to use some of Fisher's ideas to base my dissertation on but i'm struggling to think of a topic to apply Fisher's ideas to.

I know obviously no one can tell me exactly what to do, but it would just be helpful if anyone had any areas they may think might be of interest.

Thanks

I'm 56 years old, have always been interested in the offbeat and subversive aspects of counter culture, and yet have only just heard of Mark Fisher this past week ... it's taken me down a rabbit hole of hauntology, pessimism, capitalist realism, dark musical corners, and clarity on why populism and ordinariness dominates the social and political discourse today... why did I not know of Fisher until now?

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Escape into autistic fantasy from the liminal horror of metaphysical exile.

Maladaptive hyperlucidity condemns the subject to a liminal sensitivity where everyday reality becomes strange and ominous. To survive, the individual retreats their existence inward, turning their mind into a heterotopia (akin to Jean des Esseintes or The Book of Disquiet). This withdrawal transforms them into the Archetype of the Wanderer, a being whose home is uprootedness and the threshold. This condition is aestheticized through the pain of Dark Romanticism (the Byronic Hero and Gothic melancholy) and the ennui of Decadentism (Baudelaire, De Quincey), destined for either tragic isolation or the marginal transmutation of existence, as demonstrated by the life and work of Miroslav Tichý.

It's not going to be as technical as many would like; I wrote it more to introduce the topic of capitalist realism through the medium of music to people unfamiliar with the concept. I've already had someone message me saying "communism sounds good in theory...", which kind of proves the point.

Anyway, Burial's debut album (which Mark loved) has just turned 20, so I thought it'd be a good time to talk about the sounds of lost futures, etc.

Any feedback would be much appreciated. Thank you.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jakesmith24699/p/capitalist-realism-and-burials-debut?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6riw7i

Let's discuss here about the movie. What did you guys think? I personally didn't find it all that good.

The recent tweet by NIck Land that "Fisher had a child and then killed himself" brings me to the question- why did either of them have children? How is it in line with either of the two's philosophies to settle down and have kids? I mean I'm not saying that it contradicts their philosophy I just assume they both have an intellectual justification for it that is explained by way of their philosophies so I wonder what it is. Just on account that they are very radical and anti humanist and tend to hate the organic and overall traditional values