Mark Fisher: some meeting points with Walter Benjamin

Authors

  • Andrés Martín Fuentes Vega Universidad Nacional de La Rioja

Keywords:

Mark Fisher, Walter Benjamin, Capitalist Realism, Marxism

Abstract

Mark Fisher was writer, music critical and teacher in the Department of Visual Cultures of University of London.
After get his PhD in 1999 by the University of Warwick, experience that he described like traumatic, he decides to
start a new experience of informal writing, outside of the academic margins, in his blog k-punk. There, he considers
concepts like capitalist realism to cross-examine the different political –like the reformism or the postmodernism
theories- and cultural expressions, that affirm there is no alternative far away of capitalism. Second, Walter
Benjamin, with his micrologic method it is posed like one of those alternatives for escape of realism illusion, to
prove that from the margins comes the futures and the possible changes. This and another point of meeting
between both authors are what I propose to explore in the next article.

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Author Biography

  • Andrés Martín Fuentes Vega, Universidad Nacional de La Rioja

    Profesor
    Universitario en Historia para Nivel Secundario
    y Superior de la Universidad Nacional de La
    Rioja, La Rioja, Argentina (UNLaR). Se
    desempeña en la Universidad Nacional de La
    Rioja, La Rioja, Argentina

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Published

2024-08-09

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