Response to Mark Fisher Reading

Fisher and his musings seem to give off a sense of loss and lack of motivation for ourselves as a people’s moving forward. Seeming as if we are caught in a time loop due to our relations now with the past and how we try to expand ourselves into a “future.” The point where he talks about losing a way directly forward in progress is something I find interesting and I wonder if there is a different context it could be placed in. Much like the Renaissance where the masters look back towards the ideologies of the ancient Greeks and Romans, I wonder if a Digital Renaissance is possible. A point in time where we expand upon the past in order to find a way to perpetuate into a new future. Though that is extremely hard to tell and that possibility is probably not going to be realized until much longer after I die. 

There also seems to be points in his writing where it seems like a generalization of the norm and not accounting for niche and movement possibilities that have yet to come into the mass consumption. Especially in his point about ALL music and it’s relation to the past, which I think could be disproven by many songs and I think could possibly cross over into an art context. Also our consumption methods have changed especially with the internet so I wonder if our working and development has just not yet caught up to how we consume and maybe that is our possible next step into Fisher’s “future” of forward progress.

Me reading some of these big ass words in this writing: