On, Fisher retweeted an article previously written by himself in 2018 after the Robb Elementary School shooting, in which he falsely claimed that the AR-15 was 'Invented for Nazi infantrymen, further developed by the US military'. He was the Post's correspondent in Germany from 1989 to 1994. Since then, he has worked at The Washington Post as a reporter, editor, and columnist. He worked at the Miami Herald from 1980 to 1986.

Fisher was the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, where he taught a course on The Journalism of Daily Life, served as journalist-in-residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. He also served as the Central Europe bureau chief on the Post's foreign staff and earlier covered schools in Washington, D.C., and D.C. He wrote about politics and culture for the Style section. Career įisher previously wrote the local column for the Post and was the paper's Special Reports Editor. Fisher wrote a local column for the Post and another about radio, music and culture titled 'The Listener.' Early life and education įisher grew up in New York, attended the Horace Mann School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Princeton University, where he was a member of the University Press Club. He was previously a Post enterprise editor, leading a team of writers experimenting with new types of storytelling. Finally, as more people have access to the means for theoretical and cultural broadcasting, it is urged that the online left uses that access to build a real life cultural and political movement.Marc Fisher (born December 15, 1958) is a senior editor for The Washington Post, where he writes about national, foreign and local issues. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes it argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, The Memeing of Mark Fisher aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. In the aftermath, this book revisits the main Frankfurt School theorists, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin and Marcuse, who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. This depression was brought about not just by Covid isolation, but by the digital economy, fueled by social media and the meme. We witnessed a depression, not economically speaking, but in the psychological sense: A clinical depression of and by society itself. Spring 2020 to 2021 was the year that did not take place. The Frankfurt School meets Fisher in this critique of capitalism incorporating memes, mental illness and psychedelia into a proposed counterculture.

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