Mark Fisher (1968-2017) was a writer, critic, cultural theorist and a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University Of London. He wrote the books Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? (2009), Ghosts of my life (2014) and The Weird and the Eerie (2017), among others. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s and for his writing on radical politics, music and popular culture. He contributed to publications such as The Wire, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound. In 1995 he contributed in the creation of the student group Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, based on the idea that "things will only get better after they’ve got worse, so let’s make things worse!".
