His short first book,/Capitalist Realism/(2009), was surprisingly grand
in scope. To argue that neoliberalism hadn’t just privatized public life
but encircled our very imaginations felt earth-shattering, particularly
because underneath that argument was the passionate belief that there
was still a collective way out. His subsequent works —/Ghosts of My
Life/(2014),/The Weird and the Eerie/(2016), and the posthumously
published, mammoth collection/k-punk/(2018) — all attempted to map this
exit, to jump-start a mass radical imaginary that had been tamed and
confined. That he left his/Acid Communism/unfinished at the time of his
suicide in early 2017 was — in a darkly perverse way, and at the risk of
making him into a martyr — his way of telling us that it is now our
project to complete.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/giving-up-the-ghost-on-the-legacy-of-mark-fisher/
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