…sincerely never thought I'd see Fisher on HN. His work is fantastic, tying together politics, pop culture, and philosophy into a cogent reading of our times. I would recommend reading Capitalist Realism over Ghosts of My Life if you're looking to get a sense of his ideas, or, at least I found the latter to be a harder read to get into. Both are good. Younger folks have more and more trouble imagining a better world. It's…
I just came across Mark Fisher this past year - his ideas are interesting. He reminds me of David Foster Wallace for some odd reason. Here's a few of my favorite excerpts from Fisher's Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures: > Producing the new depends upon certain kinds of withdrawal — from, for instance, sociality as much as from pre-existing cultural forms — but the…
…depressive hedonia, in which people are depressed, but instead of being unable to seek pleasure, they basically can't do anything except seek pleasure (to consume more, faster, etc.) He also has another book, Ghosts of My Life, in which he talks about how we're essentially collectively "haunted" by the possible futures that failed to materialize. I've yet to read it, but I've heard it's fascinating.
…unhelpful opposition is to think of hauntology as the agency of the virtual, with the spectre understood not as anything supernatural, but as that which acts without (physically) existing." -- Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, emph. added.
…increasing sense that culture has lost the ability to grasp and articulate the present. Or it could be that, in one very important sense, there is no present to grasp and articulate anymore.” ― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
……真心没想到会在 HN 上看到有人聊费舍尔。他的作品太棒了，把政治、流行文化和哲学串在一起，对我们这个时代做出了深刻有力的解读。如果你想了解他的思想，我推荐先读《资本主义现实主义》而不是《我生命中的幽灵》，至少我觉得后者读起来更难啃一些。两本都很棒。现在的年轻人越来越难以想象一个更美好的世界了。这……
…sincerely never thought I'd see Fisher on HN. His work is fantastic, tying together politics, pop culture, and philosophy into a cogent reading of our times. I would recommend reading Capitalist Realism over Ghosts of My Life if you're looking to get a sense of his ideas, or, at least I found the latter to be a harder read to get into. Both are good. Younger folks have more and more trouble imagining a better world. It's…
如果你想更深地沉溺在这种情绪里，去读读马克·费舍尔吧。《资本主义现实主义》，或者《我生命中的幽灵》
if you want to indulge in this feeling more, read some Mark Fisher. Capitalist Realism, or Ghosts of My Life
我去年才刚了解到马克·费舍尔——他的想法挺有意思的。出于某种奇怪的原因，他让我想起了大卫·福斯特·华莱士。这里摘录几段费舍尔在《我生命中的幽灵：关于抑郁、幽灵学与失落未来的随笔》里我最喜欢的句子：> 创造新事物取决于某种抽离——例如，不仅要从先前的文化形态中抽离，还要从社交中抽离——但是……
I just came across Mark Fisher this past year - his ideas are interesting. He reminds me of David Foster Wallace for some odd reason. Here's a few of my favorite excerpts from Fisher's Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures: > Producing the new depends upon certain kinds of withdrawal — from, for instance, sociality as much as from pre-existing cultural forms — but the…
……抑郁性享乐（depressive hedonia），指的是人们陷入抑郁，但他们并不是无法寻求快乐，而是基本上除了寻求快乐之外什么都干不了（消费更多、更快等等）。他还有另一本书《我生命中的幽灵》，探讨了我们本质上是如何集体被那些未能实现的可能未来所“纠缠”。我还没读，但听说极其精彩。
…depressive hedonia, in which people are depressed, but instead of being unable to seek pleasure, they basically can't do anything except seek pleasure (to consume more, faster, etc.) He also has another book, Ghosts of My Life, in which he talks about how we're essentially collectively "haunted" by the possible futures that failed to materialize. I've yet to read it, but I've heard it's fascinating.
……毫无助益的对立，应当是将幽灵学视为虚拟的能动性，这里的幽灵不被理解为任何超自然事物，而是指那些在（物理上）不存在却发挥作用的事物。”——马克·费舍尔，《我生命中的幽灵》，着重号为引者所加。
…unhelpful opposition is to think of hauntology as the agency of the virtual, with the spectre understood not as anything supernatural, but as that which acts without (physically) existing." -- Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, emph. added.
……愈发强烈地感觉到文化已经丧失了把握和阐明当下的能力。或者也可能是，在一个非常关键的意义上，已经不再有可以被把握和阐明的当下。”——马克·费舍尔，《我生命中的幽灵：关于抑郁、幽灵学与失落未来的随笔》
…increasing sense that culture has lost the ability to grasp and articulate the present. Or it could be that, in one very important sense, there is no present to grasp and articulate anymore.” ― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures