[D66] Fisher lecture

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DOCH Lectures: Mark Fisher 29-30 May 2011 #1
from DOCH Lectures 1 year ago

Mark Fisher alias K-Punk has over the last decade established himself as 
an academic equivalent to Colonel Kurtz (Apocalypse Now) bringing 
together deep insides of popular music with psychoanalysis, political 
analysis and speculative fiction creating, what Sukhdev Sandhu names, an 
extraordinary body of rogue scholarship, a theory-rush with few parallels.
In two three hour sessions, Mark Fisher dug deep into the realism of 
ubiquitous capitalism – “today it is easier to imagine the end of the 
world rather than an end to capitalism” (Jameson/Zizek) – beyond the 
corner of grey zombies and into the thematic of his forthcoming book 
dealing with depression, hauntology and lost futures."

Fisher is the author of ‘Capitalist Realism’, the editor of ‘The 
Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson’ (both Zer0, 2009), and writes 
regularly for Sight and Sound, Film Quarterly, The Wire and Frieze, as 
well as maintaining a well-known blog at k-punk.abstractdynamics.org. He 
teaches at the University of East London, Goldsmiths, University of 
London, and the City Literary Institute.

The seminar was part of the DOCH course Speculative Realism and was open 
to the public.

Video and sound by Malin Korkeasalo