ABOUT MARK FISHER
English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher who was based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London . He gained recognition for his blog K-punk in the early 2000s and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture.
In 1989, he earned a BA degree in English and Philosophy at Hull University and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Warwick in 1999 titled Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction.
He was a co-founder of Zero Books and Repeater Books. He wrote three books, "Capitalist Realism," "Ghosts of My Life" and "The Weird and the Eerie." He hanged himself at the age of 48.
He was married to Zoe Fisher.
Some of his blogs were influenced by the philosopher Slavoj Zizek .
