Kyle Harrison
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Capitalist Realism
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- Author
- Mark Fisher
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 123
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Fisher’s short, much-cited essay on the condition in which capitalism is not defended so much as assumed — the sense that no other arrangement is even imaginable — and what that does to culture, work and mental health.
Where I saw it: A bare Amazon link saved in the note.
Connections
- Mark Fisher — author.
- Ideological Family Tree — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.
- Postmodernism — the intellectual lineage Fisher is arguing inside of.