Quotes by Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labo — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weathe — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effe — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous social systems. Capit — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
[I]t is a mistake to rush to impose the individual ethical responsibility that the corporate structure deflects. This is — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to co — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met d — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, ev — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?