![]() Punk, for Fisher, was a way of being and seeing that involved a refusal of things as they were. The K came from kyber, the Greek root of “cyber,” and it was intended to signal his interest in a time before the rise of the sort of cyber boosterism that Fisher associated with Wired magazine. ![]() So, in 2003, he decided to start a blog.įisher’s blog was called K-Punk. He was zealous about obscure music and cinema at a time when critical discourse seemed to be reorienting itself around our biggest stars. Fisher, then in his mid-thirties, had devoted himself to theories of capitalism and Internet culture that few people in his immediate vicinity appeared to care about. ![]() Mark Fisher was a writer and academic from the English Midlands who, in the early two-thousands, felt at odds with many of the institutions around him. Fisher feared that we were losing our ability to conceptualize a tomorrow that was radically different from our present. ![]()
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