Capitalism Quote by Mark Fisher

“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

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

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

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

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

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

— 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 obscured from…

— Mark Fisher

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

“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

“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

“[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

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