"In Conditions of Digital Recall, Loss Is Itself Lost"

"While Fisher's suffering as a depressive is intrinsic to his work, the explicit naming of the condition in the book's subtitle seems to me a mistake, giving the not-quite-accurate impression that Ghosts is a downer read. While Fisher's outlook is certainly dark, it's thrilling rather than deflating to watch him outrun and outwit the demons of his life, switching frenetically between zealous advocacy and bitter disparagement. His prose is the kind that has you compulsively underlining passages wherein ideas are inseparable from the sensual charisma of the language through which they are expressed. He evokes music not with technical jargon but a lyrical rainstorm of evocative, synaesthesic images."

At The Guardian, Rob Doyle reviews Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures.