Mark Fisher

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

— Mark Fisher

Affective exploitation is crucial to late capitalism.

— Mark Fisher

De Palma's great theme, obsessively reiterated, is betrayal.

— Mark Fisher

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

— Mark Fisher

Just because something is current doesn't mean it is new.

— Mark Fisher

Like all of Moore's work, 'V for Vendetta' is considerably less than the sum of its parts.

— Mark Fisher

I'm the world's greatest apologist for Brian De Palma but his version of Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia' is a disaster.

— Mark Fisher

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

— Mark Fisher

The arrival of 'Star Wars' signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.

— Mark Fisher

The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.

— Mark Fisher

Although it was published in 1977, "A Scanner Darkly's" mood is already postpunk.

— Mark Fisher

In a world of niches, we are enchained by our own consumer preferences.

— Mark Fisher

The 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion.

— Mark Fisher

Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.

— Mark Fisher

Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by…

— Mark Fisher

If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why…

— Mark Fisher

We once turned to popular culture because it produced fantasy objects; now, we are asked to 'identify with' the fantasising subject itself.

— Mark Fisher

To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.

— Mark Fisher

“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours,…

— Mark Fisher

What better example than the World Cup is there of the fact that individual people are irrelevant while impersonal structures are invariant?

— Mark Fisher

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is…

— Mark Fisher

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not…

— Mark Fisher

Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to…

— Mark Fisher

The first 'Red Dawn' was made at a time when Hollywood didn't stint in its use of Russian stereotypes. Cold war capitalist…

— Mark Fisher

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class…

— Mark Fisher

When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar -…

— Mark Fisher

Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From 'Wall-E' to 'Avatar,' corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing…

— Mark Fisher

Identitarianism assumes that people are condemned to identify with the positive (ethnic/ gender/ nationalistic) predicates they possess, as if their subjectivity were…

— Mark Fisher

It will come as no surprise that I would count Nietzsche the perspectivist - he who questioned not only the possibility but…

— Mark Fisher

“I am sure that by now you have understood the basics of cryptocurrencies and how the Ethereum system works. In this chapter,…

— Mark Fisher

“The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the…

— Mark Fisher

“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no…

— Mark Fisher

“In his dreadful lassitude and objectless rage, Cobain seemed to have give wearied voice to the despondency of the generation that had…

— Mark Fisher

“Don’t think that Ether is only used within the Ethereum network. It is now actively traded in many places. It will be…

— Mark Fisher

“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course…

— Mark Fisher

“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could…

— Mark Fisher

“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the…

— Mark Fisher

What Public Enemy and Underground Resistance had in common was a rejection of the idea of music as entertainment.

— Mark Fisher

What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for?

— Mark Fisher

Sometimes a disappearance can be more haunting than an apparition.

— Mark Fisher