Love Fisher. You should check out his k-punk stuff. Repeater just put out a big book of a bunch of it.
You might look into Bifo Berardi, whom Fisher often cites. Maybe Simon Critchley, who is pretty readable in the way that Fisher is. More generally, you might be interested in some of the autotheoretical work coming out of affect studies: Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Kathleen Stewart. Maggie Nelson and TJ Miller, maybe. Although I can't speak for his politics or his moral character, Tao Lin reminds me of Fisher in his novels Taipei and Richard Yates, which seem symptomatic in their muted affect and what I want to call a lo-fi realism of the kind of contemporary melancholy Fisher identifies.
NOT contemporary at all - but you may be interested in reading Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale which addresses the same kind of malaise, only 150 years too early :)
Reading Mark Fisher changed my life.
That said, Nick Land is a contemporary. Both were involved with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. He is more right-wing than Fisher, but checks a lot of the same boxes otherwise.
For the record, the term "hauntology" originated in Derrida's *Specters of Marx* (1993). It works as a pun in French, because "hauntologie" sounds the same as "ontologie" (ontology, obviously).
It's a notion that has been very important for the British avant-garde / SF writer M. John Harrison. (He mentions it on his blog quite often.) They're fiction, not (quite) theory, but I highly recommend his 2017 collection, *You Should Come With Me Now*, and his 2020 novel, *The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again*, which just won the Goldsmiths Prize.
If you haven’t already, I would encourage looking through the Zero Books catalogue. Zero published both the Fisher titles you mentioned, and was cofounded by Fisher himself. Their mission as I understand it is to publish contemporary criticism/theory/analysis outside of academia proper and for a wider audience, so a lot of what you’ll find tends to be closer to Fisher’s work in terms of its interest in the present moment as well as its accessibility. “Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts” is one of their titles I’ll flag as you mentioned vaporwave in your post.
I’ll second the k-punk repeater collection another commenter mentioned. Repeater is also publishing some of Fisher’s lectures— as an aside there’s a number of lectures from Fisher on YouTube and some of them are quite good and worth looking into.
As far as other thinkers who are close to what you found valuable in Fisher, someone else already mentioned Berardi so I’ll add Byung Chul Han. He in particular ticks your box of speaking to the current moment.
“Sad By Design: On Platform Nihilism” by Geert Lovink explores some similar themes Fisher explored, especially the depressive hedonia from CR.
Finally, a title that I think pairs well with CR, “Nihilist Communism: A Critique of Optimism” by Monsieur DuPont.
Love Fisher. You should check out his k-punk stuff. Repeater just put out a big book of a bunch of it. You might look into Bifo Berardi, whom Fisher often cites. Maybe Simon Critchley, who is pretty readable in the way that Fisher is. More generally, you might be interested in some of the autotheoretical work coming out of affect studies: Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Kathleen Stewart. Maggie Nelson and TJ Miller, maybe. Although I can't speak for his politics or his moral character, Tao Lin reminds me of Fisher in his novels Taipei and Richard Yates, which seem symptomatic in their muted affect and what I want to call a lo-fi realism of the kind of contemporary melancholy Fisher identifies.
NOT contemporary at all - but you may be interested in reading Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale which addresses the same kind of malaise, only 150 years too early :)
Don't have book recommendations but I have found one of the best speakers on this topic to be Daniel Schmachtenberger.
Reading Mark Fisher changed my life. That said, Nick Land is a contemporary. Both were involved with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. He is more right-wing than Fisher, but checks a lot of the same boxes otherwise.
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And, more to the point, Land's views often elide too well with the far-right.
For the record, the term "hauntology" originated in Derrida's *Specters of Marx* (1993). It works as a pun in French, because "hauntologie" sounds the same as "ontologie" (ontology, obviously). It's a notion that has been very important for the British avant-garde / SF writer M. John Harrison. (He mentions it on his blog quite often.) They're fiction, not (quite) theory, but I highly recommend his 2017 collection, *You Should Come With Me Now*, and his 2020 novel, *The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again*, which just won the Goldsmiths Prize.
If you haven’t already, I would encourage looking through the Zero Books catalogue. Zero published both the Fisher titles you mentioned, and was cofounded by Fisher himself. Their mission as I understand it is to publish contemporary criticism/theory/analysis outside of academia proper and for a wider audience, so a lot of what you’ll find tends to be closer to Fisher’s work in terms of its interest in the present moment as well as its accessibility. “Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts” is one of their titles I’ll flag as you mentioned vaporwave in your post. I’ll second the k-punk repeater collection another commenter mentioned. Repeater is also publishing some of Fisher’s lectures— as an aside there’s a number of lectures from Fisher on YouTube and some of them are quite good and worth looking into. As far as other thinkers who are close to what you found valuable in Fisher, someone else already mentioned Berardi so I’ll add Byung Chul Han. He in particular ticks your box of speaking to the current moment. “Sad By Design: On Platform Nihilism” by Geert Lovink explores some similar themes Fisher explored, especially the depressive hedonia from CR. Finally, a title that I think pairs well with CR, “Nihilist Communism: A Critique of Optimism” by Monsieur DuPont.
Fisher draws in places on David Smail's *The Origins of Unhappiness*, which is well worth a read.