The ruins of the house are still there, people sometimes visit on a dare .I don’t necessarily believe in ghosts, but, even now writing this I can see my Granny’s heartfelt fear and passion in telling that story, I would not set foot in that house for all of the tea in China. Woodard, Benjamin Graham (2017). "The Weird and the Eerie". Textual Practice. 31 (6): 1181–1183. doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2017.1358704. S2CID 149095699.

podcast discussion with Mark Fisher– discussing issues relative to the recession, insurrection, and Really Existing Capitalism Rather than ridiculing Mensch’s disingenuous argument – as her fellow contestants do – Fisher takes it seriously. The protesters, he explains to his students, “may claim, ethically, that they want to live in a different world but libidinally, at the level of desire, they are committed to living within the current capitalist world”. Mensch’s criticism is, Fisher says, part of “the negative inspiration for the course, where I’m going to pose the question: is there really a desire for something beyond capitalism?”The Weird and the Eerie | Repeater Books | Repeater Books". Repeater Books . Retrieved 16 July 2018. The twenty-first century is so technologically potent that it allows for discrete temporalities to bleed through from everywhere, causing a schizophrenic confrontation of glossy images and noises inside the depressive-psychotic millennials and zoomers. There is so much chatter; so much noise. Since there is no time that belongs to this century as such, there is also a banality; everything is a yawn-inducing drag. Over-stimulation + over-saturation of the nerves with blasé images: so there is a hyper-acceleration and a suspension of time simultaneously. Hence, HAUNTOLOGY BOOOO. Everything today is a spectral husk, no blood, no sinews, or so he says. Maybe it's capitalism, maybe you have ADHD. Read this book to find out. Or don't. I like reading Mark Fisher, but this book is really only for you completionist perverts. Others can skip. Mark Fisher (11 July 1968– 13 January 2017), 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 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture.

the kind of nostalgia that is now so pervasive may best be characterised not as a longing for the past so much as an inability to make new memories. Fredric Jameson described one of the impasses of postmodern culture as the inability 'to focus our own present, as though we have become incapable of achieving aesthetic representations of our own current experience.Capitalist realism as I understand it ... is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action. The song was discussed at lengths in - and its lyric provides the title for - theorist Mark Fisher's 2014 critical work Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning.