Mark Fisher: some meeting points with Walter Benjamin

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 tostart a new experience of informal writing, outside of the academic margins, in his blog k-punk. There, he considersconcepts like capitalist realism to cross-examine the different political –like the reformism or the postmodernismtheories- and cultural expressions, that affirm there is no alternative far away of capitalism. Second, WalterBenjamin, with his micrologic method it is posed like one of those alternatives for escape of realism illusion, toprove that from the margins comes the futures and the possible changes. This and another point of meetingbetween both authors are what I propose to explore in the next article.