Egress : on mourning, melancholy and Mark Fisher
Colquhoun, Matt2020
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This title considers the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher. Narrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher's philosophical trajectory, from his days as a PhD student at the University of Warwick to the development of his unfinished book on Acid Communism. Taking the word 'egress' as its starting point - a word used by Fisher in his book 'The Weird and the Eerie' to describe an escape from present circumstances as experiences by the characters in countless examples of weird fiction - 'Egress' considers the politics of death and community in a way that is indebted to Fisher's own forms of cultural criticism, ruminating on personal experience in the hope of making it productively impersonal.
Main title:
Egress : on mourning, melancholy and Mark Fisher / Matt Colquhoun.
Author:
Colquhoun, Matt, author
Imprint:
London : Repeater, 2020.
Collation:
300 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781912248872 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
828.9209
Language:
English
BRN:
1917927
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