An evening with Mark Fisher

The Common Sense:
An evening with Mark Fisher and Merijn Oudenampsen

For the next event in the public programme in the context of Melanie Gilligan’s project The Common Sense, Casco, De Hallen Haarlem and de Appel arts centre are very happy to be able to announce a talk by Mark Fisher. Fisher has extensively written on the ‘end of the future’ and the detrimental effects of neoliberalism and technology on society, and will reflect on the speculative scenarios Gilligan has proposed in The Common Sense. In Gilligan’s sci-fi-miniseries, society is struggling to cope with the breakdown of The Patch, a networked ‘empathy device’ that allows its users to physically experience another’s feelings.
Mark Fisher will be joined by respondent, sociologist en political scientist Merijn Oudenampsen, who has widely published on neoliberal politics and the rise of populism in Western Europe.

The talk takes place at Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy, one of the film locations of The Common Sense.

Mark Fisher is a writer and theorist. He is programme director of Aural and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths in London, and the acclaimed author of Capitalist Realism (Zero Books, 2009) and Ghosts of My Life (Zero Books, 2014). He publishes regularly on music and film, for magazines like frieze, The Wire and New Statesman. http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/

Merijn Oudenampsen is a sociologist and political scientist. Since January 2011 he is a PhD researcher at the Tilburg University, where he investigates populism and the shift to the right. He was guest editor of the 20th edition of the journal Open, De Populistische Verbeelding (NAi 2010). He writes regularly for the Groene Amsterdammer, MetropolisM and Joop.nl.

Date: Friday, February 27, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: Lloyd Hotel and Cultural Embassy
Admission: € 7,50 regular / €5 student (including coffee & tea)
Language: English
Seating is limited, make a reservation through reservation [​at​] deappel.nl