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Mark fisher kurt cobain6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() “Inspirational” is a word that crops up repeatedly in the tributes paid to him. ![]() He could hold a room in the palm of his hand. As anyone who ever attended any of his talks would attest, he was a passionate and highly skilled communicator, not in the least bit dry, who fired up and enthused his audiences, as well as fellow writers. ![]() While never diluting his own ideas or others for popular consumption, he played a singular, vital role in disseminating these ideas to a wider audience. Mark was a theorist, steeped in and conversant with the realms of academic discourse which the lay reader might find bafflingly abstruse. The poet and writer Alex Niven, with whom he worked at Repeater books, described him as “by some distance the best writer in Britain” and, as a flood of tributes on social media have come appended with links to his work, whether on k-punk, his much-read blog, interviews he conducted for The Wire or extracts from his very latest book The Weird And The Eerie, that is a judgment with which it is hard to disagree. The loss of Mark Fisher, aged just 48, has not just left family, friends and colleagues shocked and devastated it leaves a gaping crater in modern intellectual life. ![]()
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