![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Steven Shaviro, Author of Connected and Doom Patrols 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. Living in an endless Eternal Now, we no longer seem able to imagine a future that might be different from the present. The harsh demands of the 'just-in-time' marketplace have drained us of all hope and all belief. ![]() ![]() We live in a world in which we have been told, again and again, that There Is No Alternative. What happened to our future? Mark Fisher is a master cultural diagnostician, and in Capitalist Realism he surveys the symptoms of our current cultural malaise. Product details Publisher : Zero Books First Edition (30 Nov. The world lost a radical thinker when Fisher left us in January of 2017. It enables us to breathe freely in our sticky atmosphere. His book Capitalist Realism continues to define our mission. Capitalist Realism is a sobering call for patient theoretical and political work. His blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. Although the book is written from a radically Left perspective, Fisher offers no easy solutions. Mark Fisher (1968 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and, later, Repeater Books. Let's not beat around the bush: Fisher's compulsively readable book is simply the best diagnosis of our predicament that we have! Through examples from daily life and popular culture, but without sacrificing theoretical stringency, he provides a ruthless portrait of our ideological misery. ![]()
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