Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

by Mark Fisher

‘non-places’ – the generic zones of transit (retail parks, airports) which will come to increasingly dominate the spaces of late capitalism.

The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations.

If the earlier records suggested spaces that were mildewed but still magnificent – grand hotels gone to seed, long abandoned ballrooms – Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia invokes sites that have deteriorated into total dereliction, where every unidentified noise is pregnant with menace.