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Mark Fisher

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

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  • Дмитрий Веснинhas quoted6 years ago
    Burial agrees, ‘wanting an angel to be watching over you, when there’s nowhere to go and all you can do is sit in McDonalds late at night, not answering your phone.’
  • Дмитрий Веснинhas quoted4 years ago
    I’ve got a truant heart, I just want to be gone. I’d be in the kitchens, the corridors at work, and I’d be staring at the panels on the roof, clocking all the maintenance doors, dreaming about getting into the airducts. A portal. As a kid I used to dream about being put in the bins, escaping from things, without my mum knowing she’d put me out in the bins. So I’m in a black plastic bag outside a building and hearing the rain against it, but feeling all right, and just wanting to sleep, and a truck would take me away.
  • shmynhas quoted5 years ago
    In conditions of digital recall, loss is itself lost.
  • Dmytro Nikolaienkohas quoted5 years ago
    Take someone like the stupendously successful Adele: although her music is not marketed as retro, there is nothing that marks out her records as belonging to the 21st century either. Like so much contemporary cultural production, Adele’s recordings are saturated with a vague but persistent feeling of the past without recalling any specific historical moment.
  • Dmytro Nikolaienkohas quoted5 years ago
    If, in a paradigmatically modernist way, Kraftwerk used technology to allow new forms to emerge, the nostalgia mode subordinated technology to the task of refurbishing the old. The effect was to disguise the disappearance of the future as its opposite
  • Dmytro Nikolaienkohas quoted5 years ago
    Consider the fate of the concept of ‘futuristic’ music. The ‘futuristic’ in music has long since ceased to refer to any future that we expect to be different; it has become an established style, much like a particular typographical font.
  • Dmytro Nikolaienkohas quoted5 years ago
    Compare the fallow terrain of the current moment with the fecundity of previous periods and you will quickly be accused of ‘nostalgia’. But the reliance of current artists on styles that were established long ago suggests that the current moment is in the grip of a formal nostalgia, of which more shortly.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted5 years ago
    Suicide was a guarantee of authenticity, the most convincing of signs that you were 4 Real.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted5 years ago
    meat puppet of the passions
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted5 years ago
    a serial consumer of empty simulations
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