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Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher

Capitalist Realism - Is there no alternative? By Mark Fisher

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher


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Summary

A bestselling analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

Capitalist Realism Summary

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.

Capitalist Realism Reviews

Mark Fisher is a master cultural diagnostician, and in Capitalist Realism he surveys the symptoms of our current cultural malaise. Living in an endless Eternal Now, we no longer seem able to imagine a future that might be different from the present. This book offers a brilliant analysis of the pervasive cynicism in which we seem to be mired, and even holds out the prospect of an antidote. (Steven Shaviro, Author of Connected and Doom Patrols)

About Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher is highly respected both as a music writer and a theorist. He writes regularly for The Wire, frieze, New Statesman, and Sight & Sound. He is a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University Of London, and maintains one of the most successful weblogs on cultural theory, k-punk (http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org)

Additional information

GOR002103662
9781846943171
1846943175
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Hunt Publishing
2009-11-19
92
N/A
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