Mark Fisher is highly respected both as a music writer and a theorist. He writes regularly for The Wire, frieze, New Statesman, and Sight & Sound.
AI导读
核心看点
提出幽灵学概念,批判未来已死
分析新自由主义下的文化停滞感
探讨大众现代主义与怀旧情绪
读者共识
文笔优美亲切,兼具散文与理论深度
理论创新有限,多继承詹明信等人
精准击中当下时代的空虚与无力感
精彩摘录
"While 20th-century experimental culture was seized by a recombinatorial delirium, which made it feel as if newness was infinitely available, the 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion. 20世纪的实验文化被一种重组的谵妄所占据,让人感觉“新颖性”似乎是无限可得的,而21世纪则被一种毁灭性的有限感和枯竭感所压迫。 The 'futuristic' "
"The city in question is of course London, and Ford’s Savage Messiah offers a samizdat counter-history of the capital during the period of neoliberal domination. 讨论中的城市当然是伦敦,而福特的《Savage Messiah》提供了在新自由主义统治时期首都的一部地下反历史。 Savage Messiah’s London is overshadowed by the looming megalith of ‘London 2012’.."
"desperately short of time, energy and attention, we demand quick fixes ... retro offers the quick and easy promise of a minimal variation on an already familiar satisfaction. 时间、精力和注意力极度匮乏的我们渴求快速的解决方案 …… 复古提供了一种快捷简便的承诺,在我们已经熟悉的满足感基础上稍作变动即可实现。"
"It has become increasingly clear that 1979-80, the years with which the group will always be identified, was a threshold moment – the time when a whole world (social democratic, Fordist, industrial) became obsolete, and the contours of a new world (neoliberal, consumerist, informatic) began to show "
"In popular modernism, the elitist project of modernism was retrospectively vindicated. At the same time, popular culture definitively established that it did not have to be populist. 在大众现代主义中,现代主义的精英项目得到了回顾性的平反。与此同时,流行文化明确地证实了它不一定非得是民粹主义的。 Particular modernist techniques were not only disseminated b"