Capitalist Realism

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Mon, 03/02/2020 - 9:00am to 10:00am

From the Archive 2010, Frann Michel reviews Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, which argues that the idea that only capitalism is realistic is itself a distorted ideology. Fisher tries to make complex theory accessible, and highlights the contradictory impacts of capitalism on mental health (declining) and bureaucracy (increasing). (Text here.)

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