![]() ![]() ![]() The book was inspired by the otherworldly East Anglican landscapes Mark loved so much, and in particular a walk from his home town of Felixstowe to the Anglo Saxon burial mounds at Sutton Hoo in the company of fellow writer Justin Barton, a conversation that first bore fruit in the pair’s 2013 audio-essay On Vanishing Land. ![]() The Weird and the Eerie is a less overtly political work, but every page is lit by the restless desire for new horizons – for the possibility of change – that was the great theme of Mark’s work. Ghosts of My Life (2014) developed Mark’s perception that 21st century culture is haunted by a sense of ‘the slow cancellation of the future’, the erasure of the modernist impulse that pulsed through postwar social democracy: the hope that history has a vector, and that tomorrow will be different from today. ![]() Mark’s two previous books, prolific journalism and compelling blog established his reputation as one of the most brilliant cultural critics and political theorists of the past 15 years.Ĭapitalist Realism (2009) named and brought into sharp focus the widespread and largely unspoken assumption that no alternative exists to prevailing neoliberal orthodoxies for ordering our cultural, economic and political life. Mark Fisher’s latest – and tragically – final book The Weird and the Eerie explores encounters with the outside and the unknown in 20th and 21st century film, music and literature. ![]()
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