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The British cultural critic who died by suicide six years ago questioned the fundamentals of neoliberalism and described a generation trapped in the work-life loop. He is still very much alive on social networks and in books that remember him
Since then, For k-punk—named after Fisher’s online alias and blog—has become an ongoing tribute event, organised by students at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he taught. DJ sets by UK-based creatives—last year’s edition included the artist Mark Leckey—mourn one of the pre-eminent voices of the radical left, who took his own life after a well-documented struggle with depression. Mark Fisher in 2014 © Paul Samuel White This year, due to Covid-19, For k-punk has moved online, incorporating a new visual element, and now stretches over an entire month...
23January 2021 The ICA is set to present a virtual event honouring the late cultural theorist and writer Mark Fisher. Arriving in the wake of the recent book release, Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher, the event will see five artists and musicians respond to themes and questions that arise in Fisher’s later work. The event isn’t the first of its kind. An ongoing series in tribute to Fisher – titled For k-punk, in reference to his online alias – began in 2018, as an afterparty for the Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture at Goldsmiths. This year, however, it premieres...
The ghosts of Mark Fisher How the cultural critic, four years after his death, became one of the most influential thinkers and writers of our times. When the cultural critic and theorist Mark Fisher took his own life on 13 January 2017 at the age of 48, he was a third of a way through delivering a lecture series titled “Postcapitalist Desire”, which he had devised as part of an MA course in contemporary art theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. Fisher began the first lecture by playing three clips, the last from a 2011 episode of Have I Got News for You. In the video, the former ...
Christian Eede , January 20th, 2021 16:55 Oneohtrix Point Never is among the artists contributing work to the virtual event The ICA has commissioned a virtual event honouring late theorist and writer Mark Fisher. For the latest incarnation of an ongoing series of For k-punk events in Fisher's memory, five artists and musicians have been invited to create work responding to the themes of Fisher's final lectures. It's taking place in the wake of the recent release by Repeater Books of Curated by Goldsmiths, University of London's Natasha Eves and writer Matt Colquhoun, For k-punk will inclu...