Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher is a writer, theorist and teacher. His writing regularly appears in frieze, New Statesman, The Wire and Sight & Sound. He was a founding member of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. He is now a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and a tutor in Philosophy at the City Literary Institute, London. His weblog can be found at http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org. He is married and lives in Suffolk.
CONTENTS
1:
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
1
2:
What if you held a protest and everyone came?
12
3:
Capitalism and the Real
16
4:
Reflexive impotence, immobilization and liberal communism
21
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October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything'
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All that is solid melts into PR: market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production
39
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'...if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another': capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder
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'There's no central exchange'
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Marxist Supernanny
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It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
In one of the key scenes in Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film Children of Men, Clive Owen's character, Theo, visits a friend at Battersea Power Station, which is now some combination of government building and private collection.