Mark Fisher

Some IMDB viewers complain that 'Beloved' should have been reclassifed as Horror... well, so should American history.

— Mark Fisher

You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased.

— Mark Fisher

A Scanner Darkly' is one of Dick's bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest.

— Mark Fisher

When pop can no longer muster a nihilation of the World, a nihilation of the Possible, then it will only be the…

— Mark Fisher

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

I make no special effort to conceal my surname online; the reason I do not use it is more because I dislike,…

— Mark Fisher

Play a jungle record from 1993 to someone in 1989 and it would have sounded like something so new that it would…

— Mark Fisher

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

There is no need to subject people in capitalism to additional suffering; the point is to get them to recognize that the…

— Mark Fisher

“Once this number is reached, Bitcoins will come into circulation. There will be no government or authority that can step in and…

— Mark Fisher

Picnic at Hanging Rock' is the exemplary study of disapparition in cinema - I know of no other major film which deals…

— Mark Fisher

Footballers' 'lack of loyalty,' for instance, is not an indication of players' moral delinquency. Instead, the capacity to move on quickly without…

— Mark Fisher

The discussion of 'V for Vendetta' - on Pinocchio Theory in particular - has been far more interesting than the film deserved.…

— Mark Fisher

“Sure, they say, we may not live in a condition of perfect Goodness. But we’re lucky that we don’t live in a…

— Mark Fisher

Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the…

— Mark Fisher

Basic Instinct 2' is an uneasy experience because, although it is hyper-reflexive to the point where it is hard to think of…

— Mark Fisher

The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic…

— Mark Fisher

“Invited to think of the futuristic, we will still come up with something like the music of Kraftwerk, even though this is…

— Mark Fisher

Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely…

— Mark Fisher

“[I]t is a mistake to rush to impose the individual ethical responsibility that the corporate structure deflects. This is the temptation of…

— Mark Fisher

“If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge…

— Mark Fisher

“Ethereum and banks Now you may wonder as to what impact Ethereum has on banks and vice versa, well, Ethereum is said…

— Mark Fisher

“[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations.…

— Mark Fisher

“Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude -…

— Mark Fisher

Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.

— Mark Fisher

“Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to…

— Mark Fisher

The sustaining fantasy of Nolan's Batman films - which does chime uncomfortably with Romney -is that the excesses of finance capital can…

— Mark Fisher

Jetsetting is now not the privilege of the elite so much as a veritiginous mundanity for a permanently dispossessed global workforce.

— Mark Fisher

The moment that most fascinated me in Ursula Le Guin's 'The Lathe of Heaven' was its descriptions of times of transition from…

— Mark Fisher

If people dying as a consequence of the implementation of measures cannot count as evidence that the legislation has detrimental effects, what…

— Mark Fisher

We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much…

— Mark Fisher

We all know that the 'reality' of reality TV is an artful construction, an effect not only of editing but of a…

— Mark Fisher

Children of Men' reinforces what few would doubt, but which British cinema would seldom lead you to suspect: the British landscape bristles…

— Mark Fisher

What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing…

— Mark Fisher

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion…

— Mark Fisher

Neoliberalism emerged by defining itself against what it labelled as an unrealistic and unsustainable programme of social welfare and public spending.

— Mark Fisher

Postmodernism is, of course, the dead end from which hauntology starts - but one of its role is to denaturalise what postmodernism…

— Mark Fisher

Abduction was what it felt like on first listening to Public Enemy. Like the post-punks, Public Enemy implicitly accepted the idea that…

— Mark Fisher

Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left…

— Mark Fisher

The 1890s was perhaps the most Gothic decade ever: 'Dracula,' 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Time Machine,' not to mention…

— Mark Fisher