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Dec 16, 2009 · 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.
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is a 2009 book by British philosopher Mark Fisher. It explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism", which he describes as "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."
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Nov 27, 2009 · After 1989, capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system. What effects has this “capitalist realism” had on work, culture, education and mental health? Is it possible to imagine an alternative to capitalism that is not some throwback to discredited models of state control?
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Nov 25, 2022 · Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Kindle Edition. by Mark Fisher (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.5 146 ratings. See all formats and editions. An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system. Read more. Print length. 120 pages.
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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...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has been more or less taken for granted that we live in a capitalist world. Fisher argues that a lack of alternatives to this system, which he considers deeply flawed, creates a sense of cynicism and political apathy.
Jan 1, 2012 · Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is a provocative polemical analysis of the narrowing of political horizons that has occurred over the past couple of decades and of the powerful ideological grip that capitalism holds on the collective, social psyche, destroying our capacity to imagine political alternatives. Fisher ...
