Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation?Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Hervé Guibert.Analysing the ways that so many artists ha...

Il narcisismo è considerato la patologia distintiva del XXI secolo: un'ossessione per il sé che si propaga come un virus tramite la nostra costante presenza online, una malattia aggravata dalla perenne immagine di noi che ci rimandano gli schermi degli smartphone.Secondo il mito, Narciso vede il proprio riflesso nelle acque e ne rimane catturato; incapace di sfuggirgli, muore gettandosi nel lago o annega nel tentativo di raggiungerlo. Dalle sue ceneri nascerà un fiore. E se il narciso allo...

Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher.Narrated 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.Taking the word “egress” as its starting point—a word used by Fisher in his book The W...

A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016.Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element -- the classroom -- outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished.Beginning with that most fundamental of questions -- "Do we really want what we say...

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element — the classroom — outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished.Beginning with that most fundamental of questions — "Do we really want what we say we want?" — Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still exca...