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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
by Mark Fisher
Well, this year's been enough of a bummer so let's do this thing.
I have wanted to read some of Mark Fisher's longer writing – having been acquainted with his blog for ages – for some time, and I figured, given that 2020/21 had pretty much clocked the woe-meter, it was time. So I settled down for an afternoon of anticapitalist invective.
First things first. The writing is taut and, unusually for both the subject and theory in general, pretty fucking funny. I haven't kept up with economic theory since I learned the term 'stagflation' in high school, but that didn't really stop me from getting most of what was going on here.
To read the rest of this review, please visit my website.
I have wanted to read some of Mark Fisher's longer writing – having been acquainted with his blog for ages – for some time, and I figured, given that 2020/21 had pretty much clocked the woe-meter, it was time. So I settled down for an afternoon of anticapitalist invective.
The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.
First things first. The writing is taut and, unusually for both the subject and theory in general, pretty fucking funny. I haven't kept up with economic theory since I learned the term 'stagflation' in high school, but that didn't really stop me from getting most of what was going on here.
To read the rest of this review, please visit my website.