“When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, i...” — Mark Fisher Quote

“When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.”

“Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who denounces the insipidity and mediocrity that result from democracy's levelling impulses could not be more acute.”

“Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old media. The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube.”

“I watched the first season of 'Altered Carbon' before I shot the show and I had to watch it twice. Just to make sure I got it because the first season is dense.”

“I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.”

“Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.”