Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

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Capitalist Realism

1) capitalism is the only viable political and economic system

2) now impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative

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Disaster

“Theres no punctual moment to disaster”

“The world doesn’t end with a bang it…gradually falls apart”

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Capitalisms power: history

Subsumes and consumes all of previous history

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Capitalisms power: reality

Like realism itself

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Exhaustion

A deeper, far more pervasive sense of exhaustion, of cultural and political stability

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Lack of alternative

Seamlessly occupies the horizons of the thinkable

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Threat

Capitalist realism can only be threatened if its shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable