That duly arrived in November 2009 when Zer0 published Fisher’s Capitalist Realism.įisher meant something more forceful than that, too. The stage was set for Fisher to make a more forceful political intervention. And then in 2008, against the backdrop of the global financial crisis, he and several others established the publishing house Zer0 books. This effort started to morph into something more than k-punk in 2007, when Fisher quit his teaching job and started work on a larger book-length project. But while many of his academic contemporaries lost themselves to pedantry and career advancement, Fisher used all this ‘theory’ to actually try to make sense of the world. And it’s clear that Spinoza, Kant and Nietzsche, not to mention the likes of Baudrillard, Zizek and Lacan, all continued to infuse his thought and writing.
It all culminated in his 1999 PhD thesis, Flatline constructs: Gothic materialism and cybernetic theory-fiction. His thought certainly bears the intellectual imprint of those intense, heady postgraduate years, studying philosophy at the University of Warwick and knocking around with a collective known as the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. As he put it in an interview in 2010, he had ‘started blogging as a way of getting back into writing after the traumatic experience of doing a PhD’. Fisher was in his thirties at the time and working as an FE lecturer in Kent.
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