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i‘m so disappointed because this book is so widely hyped but i actually hated it ☹️ there‘s a lot of bits and pieces of brilliant analysis but overall i felt like it was indulgent to the point of being obnoxious and that fisher takes for granted that the reader is familiar w/ post-structuralism which i‘m not really. i can see why some people really like it but it‘s not my thing... 😣

[Capitalism] is a system which is no longer governed by any transcendent Law; on the contrary, it dismantles all such codes, only to re-install them on an ad hoc basis. The limits of capitalism is not fixed by fiat, but defined (and redefined) pragmatically and improvisationally.

I really enjoyed this little book although it is definitely heavy with academic political philosophy and psychology requiring a good deal of focus. Fisher presents here his account of how late stage capitalism “subsumes and consumes all of history,” rendering all facets of culture mere commodities such that no other system can be imagined possible. He deals with neoliberalism, Lacan, Žižek, Spinoza, Kafka and the futility of bureaucracy.

Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is easily the most accessible text on Late Capitalism. Fisher explains throughout how Late Capitalism has asserted itself as the final stage in history, and in its new phase has created a mental health epidemic, addicting us to a sensation-stimulus matrix of fast food and consumer bliss. It has created a Market Stalinism, a free market totalitarianism. Mark took his own life in 2017, Rest in power, Mark Fisher

Grabbed what I could from the shelves before I leave for the airport #gottadothehashtags #rainbowbookstack #rainbowspines