Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

by Mark Fisher

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803414317
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	11/25/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	692 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Foreword Zoe Fisher ix

Introduction Alex Niven xiii

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

5 October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything' 31

6 All that is solid melts into PR: market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production 39

7 '…if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another': capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder 54

8 'There's no central exchange' 62

9 Marxist Supernanny 71

Afterword Tariq Goddard 82

Editorial Reviews

"The beauty of Mark Fisher's laser sharp critique of the destructive effects of life under Neo-Liberalism was that it spoke to ordinary people in plain language that went beyond the often hermetic intellectual world of Academia. He is greatly missed. We need voices like Mark's more than ever." - Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream

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