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Mark Fisher, one of the most influential British cultural theorists of the 21st century, returns in this book to the music, films, and television shows that shaped his perception of the world, and through them explores deeper feelings of loss, melancholy, and cultural stagnation. According to Fisher, after the collapse of the vision of the future offered by the modernist projects of the last century, our culture has become obsessed with its own past. Pop has become hauntological—haunted by the ghosts of what could have been but never was.

With his characteristic insight, Fisher writes about Joy Division, Burial, Stanley Kubrick, and the BBC. He reveals how the cultural products of recent decades recycle the past over and over again and how the collective imagination has become stuck in repetition because it can no longer imagine anything radically new.