The reality of nostalgia is nowhere better invoked than at the end of Tarkovsky's 'Solaris.' When the camera pans away from Kelvin embracing his father on the rain-soaked steps of his dacha, we realise that the scene is yet another… — 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
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
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
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
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
You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased. — Mark Fisher Copy Share
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“[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
We all know that the 'reality' of reality TV is an artful construction, an effect not only of editing but of a Lorenzian rat-in-a-mirrored-labyrinth… — Mark Fisher Copy Share
I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to… — Mark Fisher Copy Share
While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star Wars' became… — Mark Fisher Copy Share
