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"In Capitalist Realism Fisher writes 'Customers might have previously known that the jewelry Ratners sold was poor quality, but the big Other didn't know; as soon as it did, Ratners collapsed.' Sounds familiar right? It's been well known that dogecoin and crypto, in general, is a total joke and hustl"
"I do specifically remember the lectures we had on capitalist realism, and the students (especially the skater bro who thought they were doing something countercultural with the techno soundcloud shite) really taking offence to what he was saying about making new art under neoliberalism. I also remem"
"When this got quashed, what we got (and still live in) was the sense of sterile repetition without change that pervades life under capitalist realism--"the slow cancellation of the future." I feel like this expresses the two recurring complaints of this sub: *Everything is vaguely shitty and boring*"
"shitty murals in Minneapolis. actually insane how ugly and demoralizing these are"
"Something something Capitalist Realism's Slow Cancelation of the Future, etc, etc, it's all about Neoliberalism's 'We're All Middle Class Now' promise of post-industrialism and the PMC-ification of culture. Under capitalism, we cannot even imagine the end of the world without car dealership owners."
"It's a symptom of a world that's losing its humanity. This feels like a complete dystopian tech nightmare. It's hypercapitalist realism. I am not crazy for being angry."
""it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to Hip Hop" Think to 2100, will Hip Hop still remain the top musical art form?"
"This makes plenty of sense, as The Man has us working long hours to scrape by, and achieving any level of success can be a source of pride and interest. Something something capitalist realism and so on."
"All of this activitity and none of it being tied back towards a political reimmaging (umm Capitalist Realism much?)."
"I was just thinking about Mark Fisher and his ideas/capitalist realism and stuff, with all this crazy stuff going on, trying to wrap my head around it… Is it because Kirk's death is easier to commoditize?"
"I get it you've read The Culture of Narcissism/Capitalist Realism and you have *opinions*. Please go outside or read the Bible or do something real I'm begging you."
"Our current society exists not in a state of capitalist-realism, but autist-realism. A world not captured by autistic systems is nigh impossible to imagine. Perhaps if we accelerate enough we will outpace these autistic modes of thinking, looping back to the schizophrenic thinking of the hunter-gath"
"Something something Capitalist Realism's Slow Cancelation of the Future, etc, etc, it's all about Neoliberalism's "We're All Middle Class Now" promise of post-industrialism and the PMC-ification of culture."
"I get it you've read The Culture of Narcissism/Capitalist Realism and you have *opinions*."
"Kudos to Fisher in Capitalist Realism for predicting the future (again)"