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To Wish Impossible Things; On Mark Fisher's Ab-joy (After All)
A later reception page that treats Fisher's afterlife as a struggle over hope, collectivity, and the uses of public theory.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they show Fisher's afterlife as a public-theoretical problem in its own right. The question is not only what he wrote, but how his writing became a relay for pedagogy, scene-memory, and renewed collective desire after his death.
Memorial and retrospective forms do the work here. They turn biography, grief, and scene memory into ways of measuring how Fisher's criticism circulated, taught, and reorganized later readers.
That matters because the section is about public theory, not only individual texts. Fisher's influence depends on how his work continues to function as method, orientation, and cultural permission structure.
How to read this text
Read for how the page defines Fisher's function before following the memorial or reflective material. That framing is the conceptual center.
Track where mourning turns into method, pedagogy, or collective orientation. Those shifts explain why Fisher's public afterlife stays so active.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
As a new volume of Mark Fisher’s K-Punk writings appears in Italian translation, Enrico Monacelli and Massimo Filippi struggle with the ambivalent jouissance of their untimely call to Deep Futurism and the paradox of their recovery, rehabilitation, and re-present-ation. To Wish Impossible Things: On Mark Fisher’s Ab-joy (After All) DOCUMENT UFD0043 Enrico Monacelli, Massimo Filippi A cascade of amen breaks, Ballard’s and Gibson’s cyberpunk, the death of sound philosophy under the blows of a new pulp theory….
Definition · paragraph 1
To Wish Impossible Things: On Mark Fisher’s Ab-joy (After All) DOCUMENT UFD0043 Enrico Monacelli, Massimo Filippi A cascade of amen breaks, Ballard’s and Gibson’s cyberpunk, the death of sound philosophy under the blows of a new pulp theory….
Definition · paragraph 1
As a new volume of Mark Fisher’s K-Punk writings appears in Italian translation, Enrico Monacelli and Massimo Filippi struggle with the ambivalent jouissance of their untimely call to Deep Futurism and the paradox of their recovery, rehabilitation, and re-present-ation.
Definition · paragraph 1
1 URBANOMIC / DOCUMENTS URBANOMIC.COM 2 It is impossible to deny that around the CCRU—and what followed after its de mise, Fisher’s blog included—there has emerged a mytholo gy which exudes the vague stench of obit uaries and anatomi cal theatres.
Definition · paragraph 5
8 The great, paradoxical value of Screens, Dreams and Spectres—and of the K-Punk volumes in gen eral—is precisely that they embody the sense of de feat that Fisher discovered in contemporary mass phenomena and against which, despite everything, he never ceased to fight—with critical obstinacy and moral rigour.
Appears in sections
Mark Fisher and Public Theory Primary section
Fisher as bridge figure, public critic, and one of the clearest routes into the archive's afterlife.