{"id":1457,"date":"2014-02-27T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2015-05-29T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T09:46:38","slug":"hauntology-with-mark-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Hauntology with Mark Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghosts-of-My-Life.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1459\" src=\"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghosts-of-My-Life-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ghosts of My Life\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghosts-of-My-Life-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghosts-of-My-Life.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>CCSR welcomes<a title=\"Capitalist Realism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zero-books.net\/books\/capitalist-realism\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<em>Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?\u00a0<\/em><\/a>author Mark Fisher to launch his new book<a title=\"Ghosts of my Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zero-books.net\/books\/ghosts-my-life\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<em>Ghosts of My Life<\/em><\/a>, in conversation with the London-based artist and writer<a title=\"Savage Messiah\" href=\"http:\/\/lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Laura Oldfield Ford<\/a>. Are we, as Fisher argues, haunted by futures that failed to happen?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhosts Of My Life confirms that Mark Fisher is our most penetrating explorer of the connections between pop culture, politics, and personal life under the affective regime of digital capitalism. The most admirable qualities of Fisher\u2019s work are its lucidity, reflecting the urgency of his commitment to communicating ideas; his high expectations of popular art\u2019s power to challenge, enlighten, and heal; and his adamant refusal to settle for less.\u201d Simon Reynolds, author of <em>Retromania<\/em> and <em>Rip It Up and Start Again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>: Room US.G.17, University of East London, <a title=\"USS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universitysquarestratford.ac.uk\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">University Square Stratford<\/a>, 1 Salway Road, E15. 1NF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hauntology: book launch event for Mark Fisher&#8217;s Ghosts of My Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[71,45,42,70,72,69,18,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}