Summary of Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future

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Mark Fisher discusses how the future has disappeared and how this has impacted society and culture. He also discusses how the experience of time has changed in the 21st century.

• 00:00:00 The author discusses how the future has disappeared and how this has impacted society and culture. He also discusses how the experience of time has changed in the 21st century.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses how the slow cancellation of the future has become more apparent in recent decades, affecting not only music but also politics and technology. The author points to how the experience of modernity has changed, with time now marked by technology instead of music.
• 00:10:00 Mark Fisher argues in this video that, in the 21st century, there has been a slow cancellation of the future, with nothing seeming to be "there" anymore. He references the lack of specificity of cultural time in the 2000s as one example of this trend. He also suggests that, in the past, the future seemed to be rushing in towards us, but now it seems to have stopped moving.
• 00:15:00 The video discusses the idea that, in the current moment, there is a "disappearance of the concept of retro" due to the ubiquity of current music technologies and the increasing accessibility of older music. It argues that this change is actually a good thing, as it means that newer, more contemporary music is more easily accessible to the public.
• 00:20:00 In his video, Mark Fisher discusses how the music industry has changed over the years, how this has affected musicians and how technology has played a role. He also mentions how everyday life is sped up but culture has slowed down, and how this is a sign of a temporal pathology. He argues that this is due to the emergence of the Internet and smartphones, and that this has caused a decline in the experience of time.
• 00:25:00 In this video, Mark Fisher discusses the slow cancellation of the future, which he believes is caused by the combined effects of neoliberalism, Asian economic dominance, and the rise of cyberspace. He argues that we are now living in a capitalist cyberspace, and that this has negative consequences for social democracy and the culture it supports. He points to the role of art schools in this process, and notes that they no longer serve the purpose of teaching people how to make music, but instead facilitate a circuit of class-based privilege.
• 00:30:00 In the video, Mark Fisher discusses how the gradual cancellation of the future has affected the arts, music, and popular modernism in the UK. He argues that this decline has been caused by the rise of neoliberalism, the decline of social democracy, and the increasing cost of education. He also points out that, while punk would not have been possible in London today due to the housing crisis, the experience of being a student in the UK in the past was much more experimental and open.
• 00:35:00 In this YouTube video, Mark Fisher discusses how boredom has become a problem in our society because there is no reprieve from the constant bombardment of stimuli. He argues that this situation is part of the domination of capitalism over culture, and that it is definitely winning.
• 00:40:00 In his book "The Slow Cancellation of the Future," Mark Fisher discusses how the present moment is not really a present, and how nostalgia can lead to depression. He suggests that instead of nostalgia, we should embrace a melancholic refusal to adjust to the present.
• 00:45:00 In the video, Mark Fisher discusses the disconnect between the people's desire for the future and the lack of ability to actually have it. He argues that this disconnect is due to the current conditions, which have been attacked radically. If we are not to submit to these conditions, Fisher believes that we must accede to the present and accept the disappearance of the future.