A review by alhetcher
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

challenging medium-paced

3.0

The subtitile and introduction make this book seem like it’s a collection of personal essays, but it’s really essays on media analysis of varies examples of music and film. The connection between hauntology and many of the albums that were the subject of these essays was hard to follow, and I’m not sure I agreed with most of his takes on rave music in general, but maybe that’s because it’s not my preferred listening genre. Overall, a very challenging book for me to get through, I haven’t read something in a long time where I also have to have a dictionary open, which in its own way was refreshing.