“We believe that money is only a meaningless token of no intrinsic worth, yet we act as if it has a holy… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Capitalism does not require us to hold a particular set of cognitive beliefs; it only requires that we act as if certain… — 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
“Ethereum and banks Now you may wonder as to what impact Ethereum has on banks and vice versa, well, Ethereum is said… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The sustaining fantasy of Nolan's Batman films - which does chime uncomfortably with Romney -is that the excesses of finance capital can… — 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
