Not only his students mourned the loss of their teacher. On Friday, January 13, Mark Fisher had taken his own life.” What his disciple (and former student) wrote about the impact of the thinker’s death in the first pages of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher (Repeater Books, 2020) would come to encapsulate the state of suspension in which a good part of Fisher’s followers were left after his death. Someone said, ‘What am I doing? What’s the point now?’ That night, our worst fears were confirmed. “We sat in silence, trying to get on with our work between brief, dismayed outbursts of disbelief. Our thoughts are with his family.” Repeater Books was Fisher’s publisher and the one that had just released The Weird and the Eerie, the latest essay by the professor at Goldsmiths Visual Culture department.
Everyone was sharing the tweet that the account had just posted: “In memory of Mark Fisher (1968-2017). On Saturday, January 14, 2017, a notification rattled the silenced cell phones of students crowding the library at London’s Goldsmiths University.
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