![]() ![]() ![]() The last of those is particularly impactful given Fisher’s tragic suicide in 2017. For him, this way of organising our society affects not only our economy but our culture, private lives and mental health. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has been more or less taken for granted that we live in a capitalist world.įisher argues that a lack of alternatives to this system, which he considers deeply flawed, creates a sense of cynicism and political apathy. In less than a hundred pages he makes the case that it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism does both of those things. The best non-fiction either makes you completely re-think something you had always taken for granted or puts into words something that you have always felt instinctively but never been able to articulate. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? ![]()
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