Ghosts of my life: writings on depression, hauntology and lost futures

Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed 'Capitalist Realism', argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (2.93 MB)

Music education makes for a poor commodity

The privatization of music education has turned it into a commodity, and with students becoming increasingly addicted to instant stimulation and…

Good For Nothing - Mark Fisher

Article by Mark Fisher on the relationship between depression and class.

A crowd lights a bonfire of disco records at Comiskey Park

Music is stagnating, are neoliberalism and the gig economy to blame?

Progress in music is slowing down, a look at how neoliberalism and developments in music production…

Haden, Charlie, 1937-2014

A short obituary of the seminal jazz bassist and anti-war activist Charlie Haden, who died last week.