“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude -… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations.… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“[I]t is a mistake to rush to impose the individual ethical responsibility that the corporate structure deflects. This is the temptation of… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The story of Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops' - tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital - is a parable (again almost too perfect)… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Star Wars' was a sell-out from the start, and that is just about the only remarkable thing about this depressingly mediocre franchise. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Structurally, as is evident, the role of the 'Islamic Terror' is to fill the gap left by the disintegration of Stalinism. That is why… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Invited to think of the futuristic, we will still come up with something like the music of Kraftwerk, even though this is now as… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
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