droid
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Just heard this very shocking and sad news.
http://thequietus.com/articles/21567-mark-fisher-dies-rip
RIP
http://thequietus.com/articles/21567-mark-fisher-dies-rip
RIP
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CrowleyHead
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Feels weird after all the ribbing to be somber, but yeah, a real shame.
I have the Post-Punk: Then And Now book on my phone and today I flipped to his lecture on The Jam, having that sort of sensation of context draped over this now is quite the thing to weigh, morbid as that sounds. And as much as I still stand by the shots I took at Capital Realism, I did like a lot of his writing.
I have the Post-Punk: Then And Now book on my phone and today I flipped to his lecture on The Jam, having that sort of sensation of context draped over this now is quite the thing to weigh, morbid as that sounds. And as much as I still stand by the shots I took at Capital Realism, I did like a lot of his writing.
Woebot
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Goodbye friend
We had many good times together in our golden days of blogging. from 2003 till, probably, 2005.
I first contacted Mark when he had set up k-punk. I offered to help him with some technical things. Small beginnings.
Many memories of meeting for walking, talking and usually a little drinking.
At Mark's flats (warm embraces). By the sea with luka (the two of us suddenly in the dark in the countryside without a light fumbling our way to a train through a wood). The Stratford wastes. In Soho watching Desi and Grime at the old Astoria. Hampstead once - again just the two of us. At my place (Lulu in the bath). Many other meets. And phone calls.
And then setting up this place together. Mark provided the name and the theoretical heft and stuck with it.
A sense that here was someone very special, intense and impassioned but at the same time fragile; someone who needed care and protection.
I saw him last year - charisma intact, surrounded by acolytes - at a Repeater launch and it was good to catch up. Strange to think the sight of him climbing the stairs from the Waterstones' basement will be the last I see of him.
We had many good times together in our golden days of blogging. from 2003 till, probably, 2005.
I first contacted Mark when he had set up k-punk. I offered to help him with some technical things. Small beginnings.
Many memories of meeting for walking, talking and usually a little drinking.
At Mark's flats (warm embraces). By the sea with luka (the two of us suddenly in the dark in the countryside without a light fumbling our way to a train through a wood). The Stratford wastes. In Soho watching Desi and Grime at the old Astoria. Hampstead once - again just the two of us. At my place (Lulu in the bath). Many other meets. And phone calls.
And then setting up this place together. Mark provided the name and the theoretical heft and stuck with it.
A sense that here was someone very special, intense and impassioned but at the same time fragile; someone who needed care and protection.
I saw him last year - charisma intact, surrounded by acolytes - at a Repeater launch and it was good to catch up. Strange to think the sight of him climbing the stairs from the Waterstones' basement will be the last I see of him.
Karl Kraft
Well-known member
Not posted here in a very long time. Sure for lots of people it is a logical place to return upon hearing the terrible and unexpected news,so glad to see the forum is still going strong and that this thread had been started.
Im probably among quite a few members here in that I found K-Punk from blissblog, and all the amazing correspondence going back and forth between Woebot, Marcello Carlin, Luka and many others, from which dissensus seemed like the next logical step. I think that period around the formation of dissensus will be looked back upon as a special moment in online culture like the music criticism of the 80's that allot of the participants were exiles from.
Im probably among quite a few members here in that I found K-Punk from blissblog, and all the amazing correspondence going back and forth between Woebot, Marcello Carlin, Luka and many others, from which dissensus seemed like the next logical step. I think that period around the formation of dissensus will be looked back upon as a special moment in online culture like the music criticism of the 80's that allot of the participants were exiles from.
Karl Kraft
Well-known member
Just seen Mark's wife Zoe post on his facebook page that Mark had taken his own life after a recent, extended bout of depression.
Mark succumbed to the demons that he had fought with his whole life. It seemed on the surface that he must have been past the worst of it, being a happy husband, father and published author, with books actually about his struggle, but of course you never really know.
Zoe said that she will post details of the funeral and that everyone is welcome.
Mark succumbed to the demons that he had fought with his whole life. It seemed on the surface that he must have been past the worst of it, being a happy husband, father and published author, with books actually about his struggle, but of course you never really know.
Zoe said that she will post details of the funeral and that everyone is welcome.
vimothy
yurp
Discovered k-punk via Hyperstition and CCRU in 2005, I think. I remember how intellectually impressive they all seemed, and how serious -- it was like philosophy and theory and being critical about the world actually mattered. Very inspiring for me, at the time. Sad news to hear that he's passed.
droid
Well-known member
Ah, thats devastating. I didnt know he had kids. Heart goes out to his close friends and family.
mind_philip
saw the light
Desperately sad news.
