Mark Fisher’s Popular Modernism
It’s been three years since we lost Mark Fisher, but his vision of a socialist future endures.
At the heart of the work of Mark Fisher is something he called “popular modernism.” By this, he meant a kind of culture — most often found in music — that straddled the experimental and the mainstream. While popular, it required work to be fully understood, doing away with past forms, following a modernist “make it new” […]