Star Wars' was a sell-out from the start, and that is just about the only remarkable thing about this depressingly mediocre franchise. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
We all know that the 'reality' of reality TV is an artful construction, an effect not only of editing but of a… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
On the Junior Boys' 'When No-one Cares' beats are abandoned altogether, the track's 'endless night' lit only by the dying-star flares and… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
In the classic 70s episodes, Columbo is rarely seen on his own. We typically do not see Columbo 'for himself,' only for… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The vast numbers of people who suffer some kind of mental illness under capitalism can either think, 'there is some failing with… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
When pop can no longer muster a nihilation of the World, a nihilation of the Possible, then it will only be the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
In particularly acute cases of depression, it is recognized that no verbal or therapeutic intervention will reach the patient. The only effective… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for? — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Crucially, Marxist atheism is only achieved once the theological critique of capitalism is completed. This is what separates Marxist atheism from the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The story of Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops' - tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital - is a parable (again almost too perfect)… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Star Wars' was a sell-out from the start, and that is just about the only remarkable thing about this depressingly mediocre franchise. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Structurally, as is evident, the role of the 'Islamic Terror' is to fill the gap left by the disintegration of Stalinism. That is why… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Invited to think of the futuristic, we will still come up with something like the music of Kraftwerk, even though this is now as… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
