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Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

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odinh's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Fantastic collectionbof essays.

nomadpenguin's review against another edition

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2.0

The parts with actual analysis are great. Unfortunately, long segments of the book are dedicated to describing music, which is always an incredibly futile task.

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3.0

Fisher is always worth reading for the fascinating connections he makes between aspects of culture and the hypotheses he derives from those connections. This collection of old blog posts and short essays, however, is not among his most satisfying works. Interesting for those of us who grew up in the time of TV’s ‘Sapphire and Steel’, who idolized the band ‘Joy Division’, and who have a soft spot for Derrida’s ‘hauntology’, but I can’t imagine it saying much to anyone not having gone through that period.

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4.0

An interesting, but unfocused read. Its core themes resonated with me but it was quite hard to find those themes in some of the articles.
Fisher lays out the core thesis quite well in the related lectures though so I recommend listening to those if you struggled to get the ideas here.