Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of…

To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.

— Mark Fisher

While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star Wars' became…

— Mark Fisher

“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.”

— John Fiske

I do think that at this moment in late capitalism it is easier in our minds to imagine raising Florida 30 feet to escape…

— Naomi Klein

“It’s still unmessed-with country. You like to think it goes on forever, but the colonisers are coming. The suits and tenderfeet. You can hear…

— Thomas Pynchon

The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they…

— Richard Rosen

[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois'…

— Allan Bloom

Affective exploitation is crucial to late capitalism.

— Mark Fisher

“The cultural Left has contributed to the formation of this politically useless unconscious not only by adopting “power” as the name of an invisible,…

— Richard M. Rorty

I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to meet someone.

— Dana Gould

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy…

— Luther Burbank

“optimistically – get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning, and are spared the terror…

— Salman Rushdie

Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of…

— John Coltrane

Negative thoughts lead us to the darkness. Think optimistically.

— Ritu Ghatourey

My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.

— Liu Xiaobo