# Ghosts of My Life –Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures **Opening (not a real abstract):** After the brilliance of Capitalist Realism, Ghosts Of My Life confirms Mark Fisher’s role as our greatest and most trusted navigator of these times out of joint, through all their frissons and ruptures, among all their apparitions and spectres, past, present and future. David Peace, author of the Red Riding Quartet and Red or Dead Mark Fisher reads the contemporary world like no other analyst of its miseries and madness and mores. He is driven by anger but, miraculously, he never forgets to celebrate, when that reaction is apposite. I find his work exhilarating, fascinating, deeply engaging and, not least, utterly vital; this world we have made for ourselves would be a lesser place without it. Niall Griffiths, author of Sheepshagger Ghosts Of My Life confirms that Mark Fisher is our most penetrating explorer of the connections between **Authors:** [[Mark Fisher]]