Collection Mediakcije, book no. 20
Editor: Gregor Moder
ISBN 978-961-6572-62-0
This book was published in Slovenian.
Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism
In terms of its formal characteristics and content, Capitalist Realism is a work that perhaps best articulates the climate of the twenty-first-century precariat class as well as analyzes its economic conditions and cultural characteristics. The relatively short text functions at once as a manifesto and an in-depth analysis, belonging to the hybrid genre of the journalistic-theoretical essay which characterizes the decline of traditional academic public intellectuals. It is reminiscent of some trends among younger intellectuals in Slovenia, such as the appearance of new types of texts in the magazine Razpotja or on the website of Radio Študent. Capitalist Realism addresses itself to the millennial generation in a hyperglobalized world of communication networks, to a generation that cannot find its voice and take hold of its future at a time of decaying cultural forms and established patterns of work and employment. Fisher intervenes as an intellectual best suited to understand the situation and give it a conceptual background through his analyses, providing a frame of reference and a voice for young people
Collection Mediakcije, book no. 20
Editor: Gregor Moder
ISBN 978-961-6572-62-0
This book was published in Slovenian.
Excerpt
This malaise, the feeling that there is nothing new, is itself nothing new of course. We find ourselves at the notorious ‘end of history’ trumpeted by Francis Fukuyama after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. […] In the 1980s, when Jameson first advanced his thesis about postmodernism, there were still, in name at least, political alternatives to capitalism. What we are dealing with now, however, is a deeper, far more pervasive, sense of exhaustion, of cultural and political sterility. […] The 80s were the period when capitalist realism was fought for and established, when Margaret Thatcher’s doctrine that ‘there is no alternative’ – as succinct a slogan of capitalist realism as you could hope for – became a brutally self-fulfilling prophecy.
About Author
Mark Fisher, also known by his blogging alias k-punk, was a British cultural and music critic and philosopher who taught at Goldsmiths University in London. He was one of the thinkers who established a new type of intellectual in the early 21st century. Fisher has had an enormous influence, woven from subcultures and underground currents, especially for a new generation of workers and students. His Capitalist Realism was published in 2009 by Zero Books and became an unprecedented success, including in Slovenia, in part owing to his account of his struggle with depression as a social and not (only) private illness. He is also the author of Ghosts of My Life (2014) and the posthumously published The Weird and the Eerie (2017)
Contents
1 Lažje si je predstavljati konec sveta kot konec kapitalizma
2 Kaj če skličeš protest in vsi pridejo?
3 Kapitalizem in realno
4 Refleksivna impotenca, imobilizacija in liberalni komunizem
5 6. oktober 1979: »Ne dovoli si, da se navežeš na karkoli«
6Vse, kar je v trdnem stanju, se stali v piar: tržni stalinizem in birokratska antiprodukcija
7 »[…] če lahko opazuješ prekrivanje ene realnosti z drugo«: kapitalistični realizem kot delo sanj in motnja spomina
8 Nobene centrale ni
9 Marksistična supervaruška
Spremna beseda
Duhovi Marka Fisherja
Muanis Sinanović
Reception in Public
Danilo Lučić: Mark Fisher proti prikazni kapitalizma
Disenz / 28. 10. 2020