This book is the first to consider the legacy of writer and cultural critic Mark Fisher. His starting point is the moment when a group of his graduate students receive the news of his suicide. Affected by the emptiness of loss, Matt Colquhoun, one of those students, manages to weave together an elegiac, hybrid text, halfway between choral memory and theoretical research.

But can death be the starting point of something? About what? The “mourning space” opened between colleagues, colleagues and friends after that painful journey in 2017, the experience of collective suffering and a renewed sense of solidarity that was expressed in commemorative events, after-hours conversations on the university campus and nights of melancholic dance, they become the ideal incitement to address one of Fisher's greatest questions: what kind of community ties can we still cultivate under the atomized forms of contemporary existence? This question, of an urgency that is manifested today both in the alarming spread of neoreactionary subcultures and in the impotence of the left to produce common sense beyond identity claims, is central to considering escape routes from hegemonic social structures. Only the experience of a community will allow laying the foundations of a renewed political consciousness.

It is following this spirit that Colquhoun proposes to value Fisher's contribution without resorting to the canonizable figure of the author. Let the impersonal forces he always tried to evoke speak through him, accentuating his ability to weave networks and think with others. By reliving his days as a “renegade student” member of the Cyber Culture Investigations Unit, his years as a troublemaker in the blogosphere, or the affective resonance that struck people like Simon Reynolds, Sadie Plant or Kodwo Eshun, this book maps the different collective channeling thresholds through which Fisher attempted to escape capitalist realism. The implications of the term "egress", a formula that appears in his latest writings to establish a parallel between the contact with the afterlife of Lovecraft's characters and a possible escape from the system, constitute the framework from which to imagine other possible worlds. .