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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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