Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction

Completed in 1999 during his time with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Mark Fisher�s PhD thesis, Flatline Constructs, invents a fusion of culture, critique, and radical philosophy that would define his signature style from Capitalist Realism�to Acid Communism. Drawing on sources from David Cronenberg to Gilles Deleuze and William Gibson, Fisher presents a Gothic vision of cyberpunk reality, in which Man and media are drawn ever closer together, and life and death are never truly far apart.