Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?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. |
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User Review - TegarSault - LibraryThingInteresting set of articles on leftist perspectives of culture. Academic discussions that I feel I have not read enough to appreciate fully, but still approachable enough to get the gist. Read full review
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User Review - sunil_kumar - LibraryThingA deeply depressing book about a system that all of us are born into and that slowly seeps into every facet of our lives, even the one's we think are free from its influence. Mark Fisher is good at ... Read full review
Contents
Its easier to imagine the end of the world than | 1 |
What if you held a protest and everyone came? | 12 |
Reflexive impotence immobilization | 21 |
October 6 1979 Dont let yourself get attached | 31 |
All that is solid melts into PR market Stalinism | 39 |
if you can watch the overlap of one reality with | 54 |
Theres no central exchange | 62 |
Marxist Supernanny | 71 |
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| Title | Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Zero books |
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | John Hunt Publishing, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1846943175, 9781846943171 |
| Length | 81 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Political Social Science / General |
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