Photo by MACBA and used under CC BY-SA 2.0Ĭapitalist Realism tries to explain what’s gone so wrong. Capitalist Realism is probably his most famous work, but he is also important in modern British music criticism. Mark Fisher (1968-2017) was a cultural theorist and a pretty cool guy. People are getting unhappier – there is a worseningĬrisis in mental health, the planet’s ecosystems are collapsing before ourĮyes, innovation is slowing down, income inequality is getting worse, and extremism Getting richer, our phones continue getting faster, our supermarkets continue gettingĮven better stocked… and yet it appears that we have lost something of value that Something in the past fifty-or-so years has gone very wrong. Tables, and led to countless new inventions. Has lifted great numbers out of poverty, given homes to them, placed food on their There No Alternative?, a delightful book on the problems facing almost everybodyĪlive in late capitalist society – which is to say, pretty much anyone reading I recently read Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism: Is
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