Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

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Scovell, Adam (11 January 2018). "Remembering Mark Fisher With The Caretaker's "Take Care. It's A Desert Out There..." ". The Quietus . Retrieved 11 May 2021. Fisher critiqued economics, claiming that it was a bourgeois "science" that moulds reality after its presuppositions, rather than critically examining reality. As he stated it himself:

Having read Ghosts of My Life, I now know hauntology refers to the psychological state of being haunted by a future that, for one reason or another, never arrived in one of modernity's many vacant slots. It's a bit more complicated than that though, and if some Deleuzian theoretician cornered me in an alley and browbeat me to a definition, I'd be more inclined to run away than hold my ground and submit a response. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (foreword by exmilitary). New York: Exmilitary Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0692066058 Reynolds, Simon (19 January 2017). "Mark Fisher's K-punk blogs were required reading for a generation". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 January 2021.I spent many, many happy weekends in that house, friends with all of the family, and felt very welcome…until I wasn’t.

Main articles: Hauntology and Hauntology (music) Mark Fisher lecturing on the topic "The Slow Cancellation of the Future" in 2014 Unfortunately a lot less insightful than expected. This basically being a barely-cohesive collection of k-punk/magazine articles doesn't help: Fisher's opening essay (also by far the most interesting of the lot) does its best to tie everything together, but the fact remains that the book both repeats itself multiple essays in a row and yet doesn't really go into a satisfying level of depth. His tastes were sometimes questionable – he went from championing bloodlessly cerebral music that fulfilled theoretical prejudices in lieu of offering any visceral thrill to eulogising scoldy sloganeers Sleaford Mods – and there are those to whom the dated concept of hauntology is a mere expression of middle-aged lassitude. But none of that should put the curious off this amphetamine rush of a book. When Fisher got going about his passions – Burial, the Caretaker, jungle, David Peace – there was no one like him. If you missed it first time round, or even if you didn’t, this book will light up your brain like few others. Ironically, it’s hopeful too: a UK that can produce the likes of Fisher is not beaten yet. Fisher, Mark (13 November 2018). K-punk: the collected and unpublished writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016). Watkins Media. p.620. ISBN 978-1-912248-28-5. OCLC 1023859141.

As a philosophical concept, capitalist realism is influenced by the Althusserian conception of ideology, as well as the work of Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek. [25] The concept of capitalist realism also likely stems from the concept of Cultural hegemony proposed by Italian theorist, Antonio Gramsci; which can generally be described as the notion that the "status quo" is all there is, and that anything else violates common sense itself. Capitalists maintain their power not through violence or force, but by creating a pervasive sense that the Capitalist system is all there is. They maintain this view by dominating most social and cultural institutions. Fisher proposes that within a capitalist framework there is no space to conceive of alternative forms of social structures, adding that younger generations are not even concerned with recognizing alternatives. [26] He proposes that the 2008 financial crisis compounded this position; rather than catalyzing a desire to seek alternatives for the existing model, the response to the crisis reinforced the notion that modifications must be made within the existing system. Fisher argues that capitalist realism has propagated a 'business ontology' which concludes that everything should be run as a business including education and healthcare. [27]