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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1968-07-11 ) 11 July 1968, Leicester , England
- Died
- 13 January 2017 (2017-01-13) (aged 48), Felixstowe , England
- Other name
- k-punk
- Spouse
- Zoe Fisher
- Alma mater
- University of Hull University of Warwick
- Thesis
- Flatline Constructs (1999)
- School
- Continental philosophy
- Institutions
- Goldsmiths' College, London
- Main interests
- Critical theory philosophy music criticism political theory CCRU
- Notable works
- Capitalist Realism (2009) k-punk blog (2003–2015) " Exiting the Vampire Castle "
- Notable ideas
- Capitalist realism , business ontology , hauntology , the weird and the eerie, acid communism
- Website
- k-punk .abstractdynamics .org
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mark
- Family name
- Fisher
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Leicester
- Place of death
- Felixstowe
- Occupation
- cultural studies scholar
- Educated at
- University of Warwick
- Employer
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Mark fisher.jpg
- Political ideology
- Marxism
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- date of birth
- 1968-07-11
- date of death
- 2017-01-13
- manner of death
- Suicide
- Commons category
- Mark Fisher (theorist)
- writing language
- English language
- different from
- Mark Fisher
- influenced by
- Slavoj Žižek
- affiliation
- Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
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Encyclopedic overview
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, Marxist and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture.
Fisher published several books, including the unexpected success Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009), and contributed to publications such as The Wire, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound. He was also the co-founder of Zero Books, and later Repeater Books. After years intermittently struggling with depression, Fisher died by suicide in January 2017, shortly before the publication of The Weird and the Eerie (2017).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mark Fisher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.