[D66] [JD: 29] Giving Up the Ghost: On the Legacy of Mark Fisher

[R.O.]

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.

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