Situating Mark Fisher’s spatiality?

Abstract

The work of the late Mark Fisher, one of the revered British cultural critics of the past 20 years, is implicitly spatial, yet remains largely absent from geographical scholarship. Callum Sutherland's paper provides a timely and long-overdue corrective to this disciplinary lacuna. This short response aims to build on Sutherland's exposition by bringing the work of the Situationists International into its orbit, as well as musing about how we can think Fisher – via Sutherland – ethically, given how urgent the need is for a more actualised post-capitalist politics.

Towards an intersectional postcapitalism

“…I want to begin by thanking my respondents for their – in different ways – generous engagement. In this final response, I want to begin by briefly addressing the pieces from Anitra, Benedikt, and Oli, before giving Margaret's critique more sustained attention (Mould, 2023; Ramírez, 2023; Nelson, 2023; Schmid, 2023). Although all of the responses connect my piece – and Fisher's work – to vital arenas of postcapitalist thought and practice, Margaret's urgent critique reframes the article in such a way that it might be useful – although, as she highlights, it doesn’t need to be – in the creation of a more polyvocal postcapitalist politics.…”