Mark Fisher
Writer, critic and cultural theorist
Mark Fisher was an English writer, music critic and cultural theorist, and the author of Capitalist Realism. He also wrote the blog k-punk.
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British Born 1968 in Leicester, United Kingdom Died 2017
About Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher was born in 1968 and died in 2017. He was an English writer, music critic and cultural theorist who also worked as a teacher, with his academic home in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He first gained wide attention in the early 2000s for his blog, written under the name k-punk. Fisher co-founded Zero Books and later Repeater Books. His books include Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009), Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie. He also contributed to publications such as The Wire, Fact and New Statesman.