Mark Fisher was a lecturer in music culture, media and communication at the University of East London. He published in frieze, The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Film Quarterly, The Wire and elsewhere. In 2013 his pamphlet “Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?” came out from Zer0 Books, in which he looked into an alternative to capitalism that does not represent a step backwards into the discredited models of state control. His book “Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures” appeared 2014 from Zer0 Books.