Zer0 Books and Repeater Media Zer0 Classics: Mark Fisher's 'Ghosts of My Life' with Simon Reynolds
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Aug 26, 2022 AI Snips
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Theory Meets Music Criticism
- Adam frames Simon and Mark's fusion of theory and music criticism as a method to map cultural moods.
- That marriage supplied conceptual tools to capture melancholy, lost futures, and musical atmosphere.
Blogs Built Hauntological Conversation
- Blogs formed a collective conversation that produced much of Ghosts of My Life's material.
- Simon Reynolds and Mark Fisher transformed blog writing into sustained book concepts.
Blogging Felt Like A Neighborhood
- The mid‑2000s blogging scene felt like a neighborhood where critics exchanged and built ideas.
- Reynolds recalls the dialogue as conversational, collaborative, and fertile for concept‑building.