Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and the Fisher-Function

By: Matt Colquhoun

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Synopsis: Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher. Narrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher&’s philosophical trajectory, from his days as a PhD student at the University of Warwick to the development of his unfinished book on Acid Communism. Taking the word &“egress&” as its starting point—a word used by Fisher in his book The Weird and the Eerie to describe an escape from present circumstances as experiences by the characters in countless examples of weird fiction—Egress consider the politics of death and community in a way that is indebted to Fisher&’s own forms of cultural criticism, ruminating on personal experience in the hope of making it productively impersonal.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781912248889
Related ISBNs:: 9781912248872
Publisher:: Watkins Media
Date of Addition:: 03/10/20
Copyrighted By:: Repeater
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.