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7/23/2025, 4:01:25 PM
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Most people don't read a lot of "theory" (as normal people do) and don't have this mental apparatus with which they can operate concepts and ideas concerning ideology, because the apparatus is built through seeing a lot of things, and "theory" introduces a lot of fundamental things in that apparatus like alienation, myth or the other or some other shit. Fisher is both a really nice introduction to actual leftist thought and a good cultural researcher that stood on his own legs. Capitalist Realism became a popular thing among Disco Elysium fans for a reason, sorta. It's short enough to be digested in one sitting, introduces a lot of pop media things as examples so you don't have to interact with the people Fisher was inspired by like Lacan or Jameson, and is just written well: he gets the point across concisely and easily. For most people, it's enough to understand the things they are haunted by, so they may just stop at Fisher.
However, you DO NOT stop at Fisher if you want some actual leftist treatise. He is first and foremost a culture researcher who happens to come to the leftist perspective on things. His works on hauntology among with The Weird and the Eerie are legitimately great and interesting to consider. I've been reading a 380 page long series of lectures on the "hauntological perspective" in modern art by a member of the Russian Academy of Arts (really interesting stuff on how people process lost futures) and I could say that he had already left a mark on academia, at least. It's just that it's "cultural researchers Fisher and Reynolds" and not "leftist thinkers Fisher and, IDK, another Gen X British leftist who's not a YouTuber".
Most people don't read a lot of "theory" (as normal people do) and don't have this mental apparatus with which they can operate concepts and ideas concerning ideology, because the apparatus is built through seeing a lot of things, and "theory" introduces a lot of fundamental things in that apparatus like alienation, myth or the other or some other shit. Fisher is both a really nice introduction to actual leftist thought and a good cultural researcher that stood on his own legs. Capitalist Realism became a popular thing among Disco Elysium fans for a reason, sorta. It's short enough to be digested in one sitting, introduces a lot of pop media things as examples so you don't have to interact with the people Fisher was inspired by like Lacan or Jameson, and is just written well: he gets the point across concisely and easily. For most people, it's enough to understand the things they are haunted by, so they may just stop at Fisher.
However, you DO NOT stop at Fisher if you want some actual leftist treatise. He is first and foremost a culture researcher who happens to come to the leftist perspective on things. His works on hauntology among with The Weird and the Eerie are legitimately great and interesting to consider. I've been reading a 380 page long series of lectures on the "hauntological perspective" in modern art by a member of the Russian Academy of Arts (really interesting stuff on how people process lost futures) and I could say that he had already left a mark on academia, at least. It's just that it's "cultural researchers Fisher and Reynolds" and not "leftist thinkers Fisher and, IDK, another Gen X British leftist who's not a YouTuber".
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