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Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
By Mark Fisher
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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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Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher's writing put Zero Books on the map in 2009. His book Capitalist Realism continues to define our mission. The world lost a radical thinker when Fisher left us in January of 2017.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perceptive and incisive commentary about today's economic and societal conditions of near-complete abandon to neoliberal orthodoxy and a call for reimagining our way out of the current moral-ideological impasse. The only problem is the book's short length. It is a series of brief essays that build upon each other, but many sections feel like they could be significantly expanded--then the book would become really indispensable to leftist criticism.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Capitalist Realism is thought provoking, eloquent, profound, and powerful. Undoubtedly, Mark has a keen eye for what is causal for much of the present world’s pain. Rest In Peace, Mark.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Required reading for an insight on the modern human condition.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great overview about cultural mechanics underlying the strange social construction called capitalism.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Connects so many ideas I had at some point had and ones I never had gotten to.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Super-rad, everybody read this please.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A lot of questionable logic and the typical blindness brought on by Marxist thinking, but also many solid observations and some interesting points. 3.5/5.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I am a consumer and the product of pure ‘2.0’ capitalism to the same extent as anybody. I admit to finding the language somewhat abstruse and opaque in some places but the point is both powerful and well-argued: bussiness-centric thinking has reached an apogee whereby not only is it the predominant and ascendant paradigm of thought, but it it has to a very real extent eclipsed all others. It has become totally ordinary to think of public services and artistic endeavour in terms of revenue and cost without even pausing, for one moment, to consider whether this is the correct framing of these issues. (Sometimes it clearly is, other times it might or might not be - but the fact is that the framework within which we evaluate these issues needs to be carefully considered.)I was also impressed by how the author argued his case that capitalism subsumes critiques of itself and renders them as a basis for saleable products and services: perhaps nowhere as effectively as the amoebic passive blobs in the film Wall-E that the author mentions.I recommend this. It’s an unusually valid insight. One might not agree with it, but one ought to be exposed to the argument.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book nails the lie of 'capitalist realism' and pretty conclusively shows that the neo-liberal experiment, as introduced by Regan and Thatcher, is now mortally wounded.The book is written in a readable style that encourages the average reader to get a deeper understanding of the underlying theory at the heart of government within most of the Western world but, as with so many of these books, it does fall down when it comes to seeing the way out of the maze and a return, or indeed an introduction to, a sane society. Whilst some form of left leaning culture is the only way to an equable society, there is no suggestion as to how this may be accomplished without creating a dogmatic state control as per the Soviet experiment and, worse still, there is no suggestion as to how we move the man in the street from reluctant acceptance that austerity is a necessary evil and that the poor are somehow dragging them into penury, rather than the true state of things whereby the rich are getting richer at their expense.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A 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 pointing out the stupidity of the system and at highlighting how it effects the contemporary culture with some interesting pop examples. But Fisher could only be suggesting that any of us can do anything about it in jest.