![]() ![]() That voice felt deeply personal, to be sure. He often experienced his depression as a “sneering” voice inside his head. And the social has given us plenty to be depressed about over the past four decades. As he wrote in several essays in K-Punk : The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016), recently published by Repeater Books, he came to see depression as also a social affliction. For Fisher, depression wasn’t solely an individual affliction, the result of a miswired brain or an imbalanced chemical or two. That struggle culminated in his suicide on January 13, 2017. Mark Fisher struggled his entire life with depression. ![]() Adapted remarks delivered at a Chicago panel discussion on the life and work of Mark Fisher, on the occasion of the publication of K-Punk. ![]()
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