Citation
Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Simon and Schuster, 2009. Google Books Link
Excerpts
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| 5 | Lowering our expectations, we are told, is a small price to pay for being protected from terror and totalitarianism […] “Sure, they say, we may not live in a condition of perfect Goodness. But we’re lucky that we don’t live in a condition of Evil. We kill Iraqis with our airplanes, but we don’t cut their throats with machetes like they do in Rwanda, etc.” | Second part from Badiou |
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Abstract
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.
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FirstAuthor:: Fisher, Mark
Title:: Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? ShortTitle:: Capitalist Realism Year:: 2009
Citekey:: fisher_capitalist_2009
itemType:: book
Publisher:: Simon and Schuster
ISBN:: 978-1-78099-734-6