"#Fisher’s frustration with this #lackofthenew led to the development of what has become his most famous (and, arguably, most controversial) cultural critique: #hauntology. Through his work on this topic, written in blogospheric collaboration with the music critic Simon Reynolds, Fisher described how the potential futures we once looked forward to — in our fictions, our music and our politics — have repeatedly failed to materialise and, in their place, we have a culture defined by repetitive cycles of retrospection and #pastiche."