MARK FISHER: FREE CRITICISM AS GESTURE

Abstract

The review analyzes the Russian edition of Mark Fisher’s essay collection (1968–2017) “The Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures”, translated by Maria Ermakova, 2021. The theoretical and biographical premises that make up the critical toolkit of Mark Fisher are introduced. It helps to distinguish his essays from a number of similar ones. The author analyzes the formation of the phenomenon of Fisher’s popularity as a culture critic in an intellectual environment as well as structural and symbolic features that form an integral unity of heterogeneous texts in the essay collection.