Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher is the author of Capitalist Realism and a lecturer at in visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London

Articles by Mark Fisher

A new adaptation of Michael Crichton’s “Westworld” invites the audience to sympathise with its android characters.

30 November 2016

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The rise of humour drawn from awkwardness and embarrassment reaches a new zenith with two American programmes.

31 May 2016

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Two recent TV comedies conjure emotionally rich and intimate worlds out of everyday experience.

28 March 2016

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Its pretensions to a "scientific" experiment long since forgotten, Big Brother shows us how trapped we are in celebrity culture.

16 December 2015

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Satire today is dominated by a narrow elite. No longer a threat to authority, it is a means for the establishment to protect itself.

24 August 2015

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The last year has seen a proliferation of TV shows exploring the different facets of loss, from the intimate to the metaphysical.

2 March 2015

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In The Americans, Soviet spies pose as a US family. The subversive flourish is that we are cheering for their success.

1 October 2014

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HBO’s hit comedy-drama Girls depicts a white, educated middle-class America in the midst of its own demise, writes Mark Fisher

3 June 2014

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The controversial documentary series Benefits Street reveals everything that’s gone wrong with Channel 4, argues Mark Fisher

17 February 2014

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By rejecting the moral certainties of most small-screen drama, Breaking Bad became the ultimate piece of atheist TV

18 December 2013

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