Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism for Sleep
On Mark Fisher
Why does capitalism feel inevitable even when its crises reveal how fragile it is?

Portrait: Mark Fisher at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011. MACBA, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.
Mark Fisher was an English writer and teacher whose short book Capitalist Realism named a feeling many people already had: that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Writing as k-punk, he joined music, film, and theory to explore depression, lost futures, and the ghosts that haunt popular culture.
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On Mark Fisher
Why does capitalism feel inevitable even when its crises reveal how fragile it is?

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