Mark Fisher Books in Order

Fisher examines the feeling that contemporary culture is haunted by futures that never arrived. Writing about music, novels, and film, he connects lost possibilities with depression, memory, and the lingering presence of earlier artistic and political expectations.

These essays distinguish the weird from the eerie through examples in literature, cinema, and music. Fisher explores encounters with the unknown and the outside, asking how unsettling experiences reveal aspects of the human condition beyond conventional horror.

Mark Fisher examines the widespread assumption that capitalism is the only viable social and economic system. Drawing on popular culture, work, and education, he explores how this belief shapes experience and asks where its contradictions might create openings for change.

Edited by Darren Ambrose, this collection brings together Mark Fisher's published and unpublished writing from 2004 to 2016. Essays on music, film, television, books, and politics connect cultural criticism with his reflections on capitalism and the possibilities of alternative futures.