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Fisher, Mark (22 November 2013). "Exiting the Vampire Castle". Archived from the original on 4 February 2018. Mark Fisher (1968-2017) was a Visiting Fellow in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London. The Weird and the Eerie was published posthumously in 2017. Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (foreword by exmilitary). New York: Exmilitary Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-692-06605-8

As a case study, consider the opening passage from H.P. Lovecraft’s well-known short story “The Call of Cthulhu”: Another writer who has been influenced by Fisher is the philosopher Eudald Espluga, author of No seas tú mismo [Don’t be yourself] (Paidós, 2021), the essay in which he dissects the millennial generation, and who was inspired by Fisher to develop part of his theory on the “glittered cage.” This is an update of the iron cage theory developed by Max Weber and the golden cage later theorized by Michela Marzano. “Fisher made me write texts that are more protean, more tactical and, above all, less punctilious and academic,” says the writer who admires the British author’s ability “to create concepts and expressions that synthesize very complex ideas, such as ‘reflexive impotence’ or ‘magical voluntarism.’” Six years after he ended his life, why does Fisher remain one of the thinkers whom the youth of the radical left cling to the most? What did this son of a cleaner and an engineer from Leicester do that meant the internet would keep sharing poetic still lifes with his books, memes of his quotes (and publishing essays such as The Memeing of Mark Fisher by Mike Watson)? Why does his pedagogical tact garner twice as many millions of TikTok views in comparison to the clips advocating the theses of Byung-Chul Han, his antithesis in the pop philosophical reading of the present?Capitalist realism as I understand it ... is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action. De todos los ensayos, me quedo con los tres últimos textos de la segunda parte, referida a lo espeluznante:

a b Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Winchester, UK; Washington [D.C.]: Zero, 2009); ISBN 978-1-84694-317-1 (pbk.); 1846943175 (pbk.).Eeriness, however, is produced when something is absent: "We find the eerie more readily in landscapes partially emptied of the human." Think of an empty housing estate, its residents "decanted" by the council to make way for luxury flats, cranes rotating silently above. Weirdness abounds at the edge between worlds; eeriness radiates from the ruins of lost ones.

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