Mark Fisher 11 July β 13 January , also known under his blogging alias k-punk , was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist , philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early s, and was known for his writing on radical politics , music , and popular culture.
He was also the co-founder of Zero Books , and later Repeater Books. After years intermittently struggling with depression, Fisher died by suicide in January , shortly before the publication of The Weird and the Eerie Fisher was born in Leicester and grew up in Loughborough to working-class , conservative parents.
Fisher's father was an engineering technician and his mother a cleaner. Fisher attended a local comprehensive school. He was formatively influenced in his youth by the post-punk music press of the late s, particularly papers like the NME which crossed music with politics, film, and fiction.
Fisher earned a B. After teaching philosophy at a further education college, [ 8 ] Fisher began his blog on cultural theory, k-punk , in Fisher was an early critic of call-out culture and in published a controversial essay titled " Exiting the Vampire Castle ". He went on to say that call-out culture reduces every political issue to criticizing the behaviour of individuals, instead of dealing with such political issues through collective action.
