Mark Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3694405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5827-6147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Compelling Justice: Translating Necessity in Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue
In the Melian Dialogue, Thucydides’ Athenians famously assert that justice is only relevant among those subject to ‘equal necessity’ ( apo tēs isēs anankēs ). But what exactly does this mean? Interpreters have long assumed it to be a statement of power’s priority over ethics, thus identifying the Athenians as prototypical political realists. In this article, however, I challenge this reading, as well as the ‘degenerative’ interpretation of the At…
Conspiracy thinking in American politics
Conspiratorial thinking is an indelible part of American politics; indeed, conspiracy theories proliferated in North America even before the founding of the United States. A current headwind of trends appears to facilitate a surge in conspiratorial thinking, including the increased spread and accessibility of misinformation, steady declines in public trust in authority figures, and an increasingly polarized electorate marked by mutual partisan an…
Innovating Nursing Education Through Partnership With Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
BACKGROUND: Health disparities of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have been a longstanding public health concern. Unlike the engagement of service sectors and governmental entities in advocating for human rights and health equity, the nursing profession remains absent from these discussions. Transformational changes are needed to promote systemic changes that will improve health outcomes of individuals with IDD.…
The Autocratic Interpretation of Athens: Rethinking Regime Theory in Thucydides’ ‘Archaeology
This article suggests a new framework for interpreting Thucydides’ ‘Archaeology’. It argues that Thucydides’ analysis of sea power does not create an ironic expectation of Athenian victory, as is often assumed, but operates in tandem with contrasts between Athenian and Spartan social practices to align each city with the traditional polarity between monarchic and isonomic political orders. In this account, Thucydides portrays Athens as the heir t…
Cognitive decline and political leadership
The cognitive deterioration of politicians is a critical emerging issue. As professions including law and medicine develop and implement cognitive assessments, their insights may inform the proper strategy within politics. The aging, lifetime-appointed judiciary raises legal and administrative questions of such assessments, while testing of older physicians experiencing cognitive decline provides real-life examples of implementation. In politics,…
Opening the Thucydides trap: A genealogy of rise-and-fall theory
Over the last decade, Graham Allison's ‘Thucydides trap’ has become a predominant framework for analysing the prospect of great power conflict between the United States and China. The controversy surrounding this rise to prominence has reinvigorated a tradition of thinking about the effects of power parity on global order that previously flourished during the Cold War. This renewed attention has nevertheless come at a significant cost. By reconst…
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of ConsciousnessFeeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
Mapping the inclusive city: Engaging people with disabilities as co-researchers in Groningen (the Netherlands)
In this article, we discuss a participatory project with people with disabilities. In light of the lack of collaboration with people with disabilities in (spatial) decision-making processes, our aim was to develop and test a method that allowed for the involvement of people with disabilities in community development, and in particular in mapping accessibility and inclusivity in various places and spaces in the city of Groningen (the Netherlands).…
Quality of life in people living with HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploratory cross-sectional study
Quality of life (QoL) in people living with HIV (PLHIV) is reportedly worse than in people without HIV, with many factors impacting on this. We aimed to investigate QoL in PLHIV in New Zealand (NZ). In-person interviews were conducted including socio-demographic, health, social connectedness, and stigma-related questions. QoL was measured using the 13-question PozQoL Scale – summed to give a score between 13 and 65. Univariate linear regression w…
Prywatyzacja stresu
W artykule Mark Fisher rozwija przedstawioną w Realizmie kapitalistycznym z 2008 roku intuicję dotyczącą związku, jaki zachodzi między neoliberalizmem (niszczeniem związków zawodowych, prywatyzacją usług publicznych, „uelastycznieniem” rynku pracy), jego ideologicznym usprawiedliwieniem (Thatcherowskie „nie ma alternatywy”) a zdrowiem psychicznym, zwłaszcza jego medykalizacją i prywatyzacją. Zdaniem Fishera lewicowym remedium na opisywane w zasad…
Thucydides's Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
This article reinterprets Thucydides's analysis of the post-Periclean turn in Athenian politics by reading it within the context of contemporary “tragic” and “scientific” explanatory traditions. It finds in this analysis an ambitious attempt to reinvent the traditional, tragic pattern of hubris-driven reversal by reinterpreting its underlying causal logic according to a scientific perspective in which the overdetermining effects of deities are re…
Kwasowy komunizm. Nieukończone wprowadzenie
Artykuł stanowi nieukończone przez autora wprowadzenie do książki, którą zmarły filozof Mark Fisher projektował pod koniec życia i której nigdy nie napisał. Przedstawia w nim zarys koncepcji kwasowego komunizmu, czyli myślowej prowokacji wskazującej na potrzebę przemyślenia dziedzictwa kultury radykalnych ruchów lat 60. i 70., zwłaszcza istniejącego w nich napięcia między indywidualizmem a kolektywizmem. Istotną inspiracją myśli Fishera pozostają…
Dissertation List
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Thucydides and the Politics of Necessity
Thucydides’ text is a locus classicus for political-theoretical discussions of necessity. Such figures as the Athenian envoys in Sparta and Melos frequently draw upon the concept to explain and justify their actions, while Thucydides himself employs it to great explanatory effect in accounting for the actions and origins of the Peloponnesian War. But necessity does not work in only one mode for Thucydides, nor do his characters draw on one consis…
‘Revolt of the elites’
Metaphysics and Physiology in Kant’s Attitude towards Theories of Preformation
Executive dysfunction, brain aging, and political leadership
Decision-making is an essential component of executive function, and a critical skill of political leadership. Neuroanatomic localization studies have established the prefrontal cortex as the critical brain site for executive function. In addition to the prefrontal cortex, white matter tracts as well as subcortical brain structures are crucial for optimal executive function. Executive function shows a significant decline beginning at age 60, and …
Capitalist Realism and Neoliberal Hegemony: Jeremy Gilbert A Dialogue
The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology
There has always been an intrinsically "hauntological" dimension to recorded music. But Derrida's concept of hauntology has gained a new currency in the 21 st century, when music has lost its sense of futurism, and succumbed to the pastiche-and retrotime of postmodernity. The emergence of a 21 st century sonic hauntology is a sign that "white" culture can no longer escape the temporal disjunctions that have been constitutive of the Afrodiasporic …
What Is Hauntology?
Consideration of the idea of hauntology encompassing Jacques Derrida’s introduction of the term in Specters of Marx; Fredric Jameson’s analyses of postmodernism and The Shining; and a British tradition of literature, film, and television by such authors as John Akomfrah, Alan Garner, M. R. James, Patrick Keiller, Nigel Kneale, David Peace, and Chris Petit.
Post-Capitalist Desire
A method for considering the acceptability of novel biotechnologies for the control of brushtail possums
Public acceptance and regulatory approval of biotechnologies is increasingly dependent on consideration of cultural, ethical and spiritual effects, and the opportunity for community involvement. The objective of this study was to articulate a means for researchers to identify relevant issues during the development of the technologies. It encompassed the substantive issues, such as safety, the provision of credible and adequate public information,…
Spring Persistence
"The Abstract Reality of the "Hardcore Continuum
OF LONDON (UK
Understanding Purpose: Kant and the Philosophy of Biology
The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology
There has always been an intrinsically "hauntological" dimension to recorded music. But Derrida's concept of hauntology has gained a new currency in the 21 st century, when music has lost its sense of futurism, and succumbed to the pastiche-and retrotime of postmodernity. The emergence of a 21 st century sonic hauntology is a sign that "white" culture can no longer escape the temporal disjunctions that have been constitutive of the Afrodiasporic …
Executive dysfunction, brain aging, and political leadership
Decision-making is an essential component of executive function, and a critical skill of political leadership. Neuroanatomic localization studies have established the prefrontal cortex as the critical brain site for executive function. In addition to the prefrontal cortex, white matter tracts as well as subcortical brain structures are crucial for optimal executive function. Executive function shows a significant decline beginning at age 60, and …
Thucydides and the Politics of Necessity
Thucydides’ text is a locus classicus for political-theoretical discussions of necessity. Such figures as the Athenian envoys in Sparta and Melos frequently draw upon the concept to explain and justify their actions, while Thucydides himself employs it to great explanatory effect in accounting for the actions and origins of the Peloponnesian War. But necessity does not work in only one mode for Thucydides, nor do his characters draw on one consis…
Thucydides's Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
This article reinterprets Thucydides's analysis of the post-Periclean turn in Athenian politics by reading it within the context of contemporary “tragic” and “scientific” explanatory traditions. It finds in this analysis an ambitious attempt to reinvent the traditional, tragic pattern of hubris-driven reversal by reinterpreting its underlying causal logic according to a scientific perspective in which the overdetermining effects of deities are re…
"The Abstract Reality of the "Hardcore Continuum
OF LONDON (UK
A three‐valued calculus for deontic logic
Category-Absurdities
Remarks on a Logical Theory of Belief Statements
Journal Article Remarks on a Logical Theory of Belief Statements Get access Mark Fisher Mark Fisher University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 55, April 1964, Pages 165–169, https://doi.org/10.2307/2955553 Published: 01 April 1964
Intelligence
Journal Article Intelligence Get access Mark Fisher Mark Fisher Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 1967, Pages 49–61, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1967.tb00103.x Published: 30 May 2006
Sovereignty and Subjectivity
This analysis of notions of subject and identity in international relations goes beyond discussions of identity politics to argue that sovereignty and subjectivity implicate each other, together constituting the political.
The Genealogy of Politics
New Zealand Farmer Narratives of the Benefits of Reduced Human Intervention During Lambing in Extensive Farming Systems
What do individuals in different science groups within a life sciences organization think about genetic modification
An assessment was undertaken of the attitudes of individuals within the science community towards a program to produce genetically modified cattle for altered milk composition, expectantly allowing for research into the treatment of multiple sclerosis in humans. The majority of respondents to an electronic survey expressed favorable attitudes to the program, thought it beneficial, respected individual freedom and was fair and just and disagreed t…
Understanding Purpose: Kant and the Philosophy of Biology
Spring Persistence
"The Abstract Reality of the "Hardcore Continuum
OF LONDON (UK
A method for considering the acceptability of novel biotechnologies for the control of brushtail possums
Public acceptance and regulatory approval of biotechnologies is increasingly dependent on consideration of cultural, ethical and spiritual effects, and the opportunity for community involvement. The objective of this study was to articulate a means for researchers to identify relevant issues during the development of the technologies. It encompassed the substantive issues, such as safety, the provision of credible and adequate public information,…
What Is Hauntology?
Consideration of the idea of hauntology encompassing Jacques Derrida’s introduction of the term in Specters of Marx; Fredric Jameson’s analyses of postmodernism and The Shining; and a British tradition of literature, film, and television by such authors as John Akomfrah, Alan Garner, M. R. James, Patrick Keiller, Nigel Kneale, David Peace, and Chris Petit.
Post-Capitalist Desire
Capitalist Realism and Neoliberal Hegemony: Jeremy Gilbert A Dialogue
The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology
There has always been an intrinsically "hauntological" dimension to recorded music. But Derrida's concept of hauntology has gained a new currency in the 21 st century, when music has lost its sense of futurism, and succumbed to the pastiche-and retrotime of postmodernity. The emergence of a 21 st century sonic hauntology is a sign that "white" culture can no longer escape the temporal disjunctions that have been constitutive of the Afrodiasporic …
Metaphysics and Physiology in Kant’s Attitude towards Theories of Preformation
Executive dysfunction, brain aging, and political leadership
Decision-making is an essential component of executive function, and a critical skill of political leadership. Neuroanatomic localization studies have established the prefrontal cortex as the critical brain site for executive function. In addition to the prefrontal cortex, white matter tracts as well as subcortical brain structures are crucial for optimal executive function. Executive function shows a significant decline beginning at age 60, and …
‘Revolt of the elites’
Thucydides and the Politics of Necessity
Thucydides’ text is a locus classicus for political-theoretical discussions of necessity. Such figures as the Athenian envoys in Sparta and Melos frequently draw upon the concept to explain and justify their actions, while Thucydides himself employs it to great explanatory effect in accounting for the actions and origins of the Peloponnesian War. But necessity does not work in only one mode for Thucydides, nor do his characters draw on one consis…
Dissertation List
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Kwasowy komunizm. Nieukończone wprowadzenie
Artykuł stanowi nieukończone przez autora wprowadzenie do książki, którą zmarły filozof Mark Fisher projektował pod koniec życia i której nigdy nie napisał. Przedstawia w nim zarys koncepcji kwasowego komunizmu, czyli myślowej prowokacji wskazującej na potrzebę przemyślenia dziedzictwa kultury radykalnych ruchów lat 60. i 70., zwłaszcza istniejącego w nich napięcia między indywidualizmem a kolektywizmem. Istotną inspiracją myśli Fishera pozostają…
Prywatyzacja stresu
W artykule Mark Fisher rozwija przedstawioną w Realizmie kapitalistycznym z 2008 roku intuicję dotyczącą związku, jaki zachodzi między neoliberalizmem (niszczeniem związków zawodowych, prywatyzacją usług publicznych, „uelastycznieniem” rynku pracy), jego ideologicznym usprawiedliwieniem (Thatcherowskie „nie ma alternatywy”) a zdrowiem psychicznym, zwłaszcza jego medykalizacją i prywatyzacją. Zdaniem Fishera lewicowym remedium na opisywane w zasad…
Thucydides's Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
This article reinterprets Thucydides's analysis of the post-Periclean turn in Athenian politics by reading it within the context of contemporary “tragic” and “scientific” explanatory traditions. It finds in this analysis an ambitious attempt to reinvent the traditional, tragic pattern of hubris-driven reversal by reinterpreting its underlying causal logic according to a scientific perspective in which the overdetermining effects of deities are re…
Quality of life in people living with HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploratory cross-sectional study
Quality of life (QoL) in people living with HIV (PLHIV) is reportedly worse than in people without HIV, with many factors impacting on this. We aimed to investigate QoL in PLHIV in New Zealand (NZ). In-person interviews were conducted including socio-demographic, health, social connectedness, and stigma-related questions. QoL was measured using the 13-question PozQoL Scale – summed to give a score between 13 and 65. Univariate linear regression w…
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