Alongside Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life stands as his defining attempt to theorise what he perceived to be the cultural malaise permeating British society ever since the end of the 1970s. Published in 2014, 5 years after Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life argues that we are currently living through a “slow cancellation of the future” in which, for a variety of reasons, older generations are more likely to be “startled by the sheer persistence of recog