{"product_id":"egress-matt-colquhoun-9781912248872","title":"Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and the Fisher-Function","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the work and legacy of Mark Fisher, one of the most influential and incendiary writers of our generation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEgress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher's philosophical trajectory, from his days as a PhD student at the University of Warwick to the development of his unfinished book on Acid Communism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking the word \"egress\" as its starting point--a word used by Fisher in his book The Weird and the Eerie to describe an escape from present circumstances as experiences by the characters in countless examples of weird fiction--Egress consider the politics of death and community in a way that is indebted to Fisher's own forms of cultural criticism, ruminating on personal experience in the hope of making it productively impersonal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matt Colquhoun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1912248875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912248872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Repeater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Matt Colquhoun","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983586230527,"sku":"9781912248872","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_382c5601-704d-425e-a06e-87e6ed1675de.jpg?v=1683267529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/egress-matt-colquhoun-9781912248872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}