#capitalistrealism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #capitalistrealism, aggregated by home.social.
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Cyberpunk 2077 – Capitalist Critique as an Aesthetic
The 2020 roleplaying game based on Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop opus is a bit too cynical in its critique of capitalism and technology. To say the least.https://gutterputter.com/2026/07/27/cyberpunk-2077-capitalist-critique-as-an-aesthetic/
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Cyberpunk 2077 – Capitalist Critique as an Aesthetic
The 2020 roleplaying game based on Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop opus is a bit too cynical in its critique of capitalism and technology. To say the least.https://gutterputter.com/2026/07/27/cyberpunk-2077-capitalist-critique-as-an-aesthetic/
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How modern electronic music got trapped by the capitalism, and why its future is only beginning.
(my thoughts)There are people who say that electronic music has run its course by now, and that just as every possible technique on the guitar has been explored, so too has everything that could be tweaked on a synth been tweaked; so, according to them, electronic music has reached a dead end and nothing new will come of it, only endless nostalgia cycle.
But I think they’re wrong, not only because electronic music hasn’t developed specifically in terms of its content (it's still remains a very abstract "genre" most of the times, especially compared to prog. rock or classical music, for example), but also because the market has imposed such a huge restrictions on production that people, it seems, have forgotten how to think without them. When it comes to electronic music, these restrictions are as follows. About 50 years ago, subtractive synthesis took over the entire market because of it synths then became cheaper, more compact, and faster, which led to many technologies being completely forgotten and many concepts remaining unrealized. For example, in the USSR, almost all films made before the 1970s used the ANS optical synthesizer, which generates sound from light beams, and the sound produced by such instruments differs from that of digital or analog synthesizers, even though it may be a wave of the same type. It sounds unique even compared to today. But because the market required an industry to be created and market required only these types of technologies that could be put into mass production, all this diversity was discarded. Today, we could start studying all of this anew, but we don't. And it seems we're stuck in an endless loop of simulacra and “nostalgia.”
Also, there are some people saying that neural networks "democratize" art. In reality, they don’t, because democratizing art means making its best examples accessible for the masses to absorb and be understood in its complexity. So, while some say that neural networks "democratize art", others complain that everything sounds monotonous and boring. But in essence, digitization, the shift to DAWs, and the ease of music creation represent a past wave of “democratization” that, by lowering the barrier to entry, has already made a lot of things uniform.
About 30 years ago, even within the same genre different songs were created by different people using different instruments under different conditions; it was recorded and processed in different ways, resulting in greater diversity. At the same time, the very limitations of the past pushed people to think and act creatively with what they already had.
In short, it’s incorrect to say that electronic music has reached its limit and realized its full potential. It has simply reached its market limit. In reality, there’s such a vast field for growth!
#ElectronicMusic #SynthHistory #Enshittification #LateCapitalism #CapitalistRealism #Creativity #Resistance #Hauntology #Simulacra
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How modern electronic music got trapped by the capitalism, and why its future is only beginning.
(my thoughts)There are people who say that electronic music has run its course by now, and that just as every possible technique on the guitar has been explored, so too has everything that could be tweaked on a synth been tweaked; so, according to them, electronic music has reached a dead end and nothing new will come of it, only endless nostalgia cycle.
But I think they’re wrong, not only because electronic music hasn’t developed specifically in terms of its content (it's still remains a very abstract "genre" most of the times, especially compared to prog. rock or classical music, for example), but also because the market has imposed such a huge restrictions on production that people, it seems, have forgotten how to think without them. When it comes to electronic music, these restrictions are as follows. About 50 years ago, subtractive synthesis took over the entire market because of it synths then became cheaper, more compact, and faster, which led to many technologies being completely forgotten and many concepts remaining unrealized. For example, in the USSR, almost all films made before the 1970s used the ANS optical synthesizer, which generates sound from light beams, and the sound produced by such instruments differs from that of digital or analog synthesizers, even though it may be a wave of the same type. It sounds unique even compared to today. But because the market required an industry to be created and market required only these types of technologies that could be put into mass production, all this diversity was discarded. Today, we could start studying all of this anew, but we don't. And it seems we're stuck in an endless loop of simulacra and “nostalgia.”
Also, there are some people saying that neural networks "democratize" art. In reality, they don’t, because democratizing art means making its best examples accessible for the masses to absorb and be understood in its complexity. So, while some say that neural networks "democratize art", others complain that everything sounds monotonous and boring. But in essence, digitization, the shift to DAWs, and the ease of music creation represent a past wave of “democratization” that, by lowering the barrier to entry, has already made a lot of things uniform.
About 30 years ago, even within the same genre different songs were created by different people using different instruments under different conditions; it was recorded and processed in different ways, resulting in greater diversity. At the same time, the very limitations of the past pushed people to think and act creatively with what they already had.
In short, it’s incorrect to say that electronic music has reached its limit and realized its full potential. It has simply reached its market limit. In reality, there’s such a vast field for growth!
#ElectronicMusic #SynthHistory #Enshittification #LateCapitalism #CapitalistRealism #Creativity #Resistance #Hauntology #Simulacra
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#CapitalistRealism aka "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."
Is a challenge of #solarpunk writers.
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#CapitalistRealism aka "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."
Is a challenge of #solarpunk writers.
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@wjmaggos @DavidM_yeg @liaizon
Maybe not #anticapitalist, but #postcapitalist.
"#MarkFisher’s “#postcapitalistisland” isn’t a meticulously defined term in his work, but rather a powerful metaphor and conceptual tool he used in #CapitalistRealism (2009), to explore the possibility of imagining & creating spaces outside the logic of #capitalism.
…a zone of exception where different social relations, values, and modes of being can (temporarily) flourish." -
@wjmaggos @DavidM_yeg @liaizon
Maybe not #anticapitalist, but #postcapitalist.
"#MarkFisher’s “#postcapitalistisland” isn’t a meticulously defined term in his work, but rather a powerful metaphor and conceptual tool he used in #CapitalistRealism (2009), to explore the possibility of imagining & creating spaces outside the logic of #capitalism.
…a zone of exception where different social relations, values, and modes of being can (temporarily) flourish." -
CW: platform criticism, failure of political activism
Trans*, queer, feminist, decolonial initiatives, progressive media festivals still using Telegram channels and Discord servers in 2026 to disseminate their content, "building communities". Mutual aid groups reluctantly sticking with WhatsApp. Still those who do know better, should know better, keep recommending BlueSky, keeping their X accounts. :neocat_baa: Oh, c'mon!
Not to mention Instagram, where the above waste time in posting selfies for beating the algorithm, obfuscating trigger words to avoid their content being shaded, policed, accounts getting suspended.
Oi gurl! :akko_listen: It's the encompassing capitalist realism, there's no alternative, hardly anyone uses Fedi platforms …
Feckin' tired of addressing these issues every time I bump into a new group, being that trans* political activist troublemaker making an ass out of herself :neocat_facepalm: :neocat_reject:
#trans #queer #feminism #capitalistrealism #platformcapitalism #politicalactivism
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CW: platform criticism, failure of political activism
Trans*, queer, feminist, decolonial initiatives, progressive media festivals still using Telegram channels and Discord servers in 2026 to disseminate their content, "building communities". Mutual aid groups reluctantly sticking with WhatsApp. Still those who do know better, should know better, keep recommending BlueSky, keeping their X accounts. :neocat_baa: Oh, c'mon!
Not to mention Instagram, where the above waste time in posting selfies for beating the algorithm, obfuscating trigger words to avoid their content being shaded, policed, accounts getting suspended.
Oi gurl! :akko_listen: It's the encompassing capitalist realism, there's no alternative, hardly anyone uses Fedi platforms …
Feckin' tired of addressing these issues every time I bump into a new group, being that trans* political activist troublemaker making an ass out of herself :neocat_facepalm: :neocat_reject:
#trans #queer #feminism #capitalistrealism #platformcapitalism #politicalactivism
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#CapitalistRealism exposed: This email isn't a prediction of #socialism; it's an autopsy of late #capitalism. #PeterThiel identifies the system's fatal flaw: when people can't own anything, they stop believing in ownership itself. He’s not forecasting a revolution; he's stating a simple, brutal equation: no stake in the system equals no faith in the system. This email is one of the most quietly revealing artifacts of the entire post-2008 era.
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#CapitalistRealism exposed: This email isn't a prediction of #socialism; it's an autopsy of late #capitalism. #PeterThiel identifies the system's fatal flaw: when people can't own anything, they stop believing in ownership itself. He’s not forecasting a revolution; he's stating a simple, brutal equation: no stake in the system equals no faith in the system. This email is one of the most quietly revealing artifacts of the entire post-2008 era.
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"#Culturalstudies — even music and arts journalism more broadly — had an unfortunate tendency to treat cultural artefacts like the capitalist elite, perhaps not consciously but certainly as a result of their pervasive influence. In this sense, #ChildrenOfMen becomes a hyperbolic rendering of the present, and so #Fisher puts it back to work on us, presenting "#capitalistrealism" — the belief that the end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of capitalism — immediately as a #symptomatology of the late capitalist condition, excavated from its own cultural offerings."
https://thequietus.com/culture/books/matt-colquhoun-egress-mark-fisher-hauntology-essay/
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"#Culturalstudies — even music and arts journalism more broadly — had an unfortunate tendency to treat cultural artefacts like the capitalist elite, perhaps not consciously but certainly as a result of their pervasive influence. In this sense, #ChildrenOfMen becomes a hyperbolic rendering of the present, and so #Fisher puts it back to work on us, presenting "#capitalistrealism" — the belief that the end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of capitalism — immediately as a #symptomatology of the late capitalist condition, excavated from its own cultural offerings."
https://thequietus.com/culture/books/matt-colquhoun-egress-mark-fisher-hauntology-essay/
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"Shifty is Curtis at his most atmospheric, even surrealist. Getting lost in his late-capitalist video collages can feel like a shot to the heart, which is one way of saying his work often resembles the wild detours of Guy Debord and his Dada forebears. While the occasional titles describe what is happening, they feel more like bookends than breadcrumbs.
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His new five-part documentary is a kind of fairy-tale fever dream of capitalist realism, whose broad contours will be familiar to readers of Mark Fisher and Jacobin. The story begins with the earthquake of Thatcherism. We watch as the Iron Lady attempts to conjure national cohesion from a make-believe version of Britain’s imperial past, even as she elevates self-interest and private ambition to the level of civic virtue. What follows is a slow-motion fragmentation: scandals metastasize into generalized social paranoia, sensationalist media narratives erode institutional trust, and liberal elites, feeling betrayed by the newly Tory-voting working classes, retreat into the cultural capital of biennales, book prizes, and conceptual art. Industrial infrastructure is sold off for pennies on the pound as the government hands the reins of interest rates to unelected bankers. Unemployment, skinheads, check-cashing stores, and Netto discount supermarkets sprout like wild thyme across the English heather. Politicians end up believing the worst about themselves and begin abdicating responsibility. A cash-strapped Gordon Brown attempts early versions of public-private partnerships, indebting the government to private finance for the very services it had only just recently provided. In the background are the twin engines of finance and technology: unaccountable, placeless, and entirely prepared to occupy the vacuum left by political withdrawal."https://jacobin.com/2025/07/adam-curtis-y2k-blair-mcqueen
#UK #Neoliberalism #Thatcher #Blair #Y2K #LateStageCapitalism #Austerity #CapitalistRealism
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"Shifty is Curtis at his most atmospheric, even surrealist. Getting lost in his late-capitalist video collages can feel like a shot to the heart, which is one way of saying his work often resembles the wild detours of Guy Debord and his Dada forebears. While the occasional titles describe what is happening, they feel more like bookends than breadcrumbs.
(...)
His new five-part documentary is a kind of fairy-tale fever dream of capitalist realism, whose broad contours will be familiar to readers of Mark Fisher and Jacobin. The story begins with the earthquake of Thatcherism. We watch as the Iron Lady attempts to conjure national cohesion from a make-believe version of Britain’s imperial past, even as she elevates self-interest and private ambition to the level of civic virtue. What follows is a slow-motion fragmentation: scandals metastasize into generalized social paranoia, sensationalist media narratives erode institutional trust, and liberal elites, feeling betrayed by the newly Tory-voting working classes, retreat into the cultural capital of biennales, book prizes, and conceptual art. Industrial infrastructure is sold off for pennies on the pound as the government hands the reins of interest rates to unelected bankers. Unemployment, skinheads, check-cashing stores, and Netto discount supermarkets sprout like wild thyme across the English heather. Politicians end up believing the worst about themselves and begin abdicating responsibility. A cash-strapped Gordon Brown attempts early versions of public-private partnerships, indebting the government to private finance for the very services it had only just recently provided. In the background are the twin engines of finance and technology: unaccountable, placeless, and entirely prepared to occupy the vacuum left by political withdrawal."https://jacobin.com/2025/07/adam-curtis-y2k-blair-mcqueen
#UK #Neoliberalism #Thatcher #Blair #Y2K #LateStageCapitalism #Austerity #CapitalistRealism
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The Fediverse is a "#PostCapitalistIsland".
"A Space Beyond #CapitalistRealism, as diagnosed by #MarkFisher – the pervasive belief that #capitalism is not only the dominant economic system but the only viable and imaginable one (“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”). A “postcapitalist island” is a conceptual or physical space where this stranglehold on the imagination is suspended or broken...alternatives become thinkable and lived."
https://josemurilo.com/2025/06/19/mark-fishers-post-capitalist-island/ -
The Fediverse is a "#PostCapitalistIsland".
"A Space Beyond #CapitalistRealism, as diagnosed by #MarkFisher – the pervasive belief that #capitalism is not only the dominant economic system but the only viable and imaginable one (“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”). A “postcapitalist island” is a conceptual or physical space where this stranglehold on the imagination is suspended or broken...alternatives become thinkable and lived."
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@TwraSun @afelia Onopticon and Homovictimus: The Dialectic of the Digital Leviathan and the Limits of Resistance @SSRN
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5286094
#Onopticon #Homovictimus #PredictionRegime #ConsentEngineering #PlatformCapitalism #CapitalistRealism #AlgorithmicCaste #DigitalHegemony #DataStrike -
@chrisstoecker Onopticon and Homovictimus: The Dialectic of the Digital Leviathan and the Limits of Resistance @SSRN
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5286094
#Onopticon #Homovictimus #PredictionRegime #ConsentEngineering #PlatformCapitalism #CapitalistRealism #AlgorithmicCaste #DigitalHegemony #DataStrike -
Fight #capitalistrealism:
"Let me be clear: #Truth matters. #Documentation matters. Fighting #corruption matters. That #accountability seems out of reach right now doesn’t change that. When we internalize the belief that nothing can change, we stop demanding change. When we dismiss documentation of wrongdoing as pointless, we give wrongdoers exactly what they want: permission to continue unchecked and with no record of their actions."
@molly0xfff
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Fight #capitalistrealism:
"Let me be clear: #Truth matters. #Documentation matters. Fighting #corruption matters. That #accountability seems out of reach right now doesn’t change that. When we internalize the belief that nothing can change, we stop demanding change. When we dismiss documentation of wrongdoing as pointless, we give wrongdoers exactly what they want: permission to continue unchecked and with no record of their actions."
@molly0xfff
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That inner voice saying, "Surely if this were real, more people would be talking about it?” is social media’s greatest success: it doesn’t silence dissent—it makes dissenters doubt themselves into silence. 🔚
What are your thoughts? #DigitalPacification
#SocialMediaControl #SurveillanceSociety #RadicalResurgence #NewWorldOrder
#CageOfExpression #ResistanceInTheDigitalAge
#TechAndTerrorism #CapitalistRealism #FoucaultAndControl #SocialMediaDoubt
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That inner voice saying, "Surely if this were real, more people would be talking about it?” is social media’s greatest success: it doesn’t silence dissent—it makes dissenters doubt themselves into silence. 🔚
What are your thoughts? #DigitalPacification
#SocialMediaControl #SurveillanceSociety #RadicalResurgence #NewWorldOrder
#CageOfExpression #ResistanceInTheDigitalAge
#TechAndTerrorism #CapitalistRealism #FoucaultAndControl #SocialMediaDoubt
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The more I play Monopoly Go, or other capitalist realism games, the more I'm convinced money is an illusion.
In other news, please buy my books.
Money may be an illusion, but society still requires it of me.#capitalism #gaming #capitalistrealism #selfpromo #bookpromo #weliveinasociety
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Yep, I know this reality.
This is late stage capitalism. This is neo-liberalism
""....What a why to live!? I can only have housing security, when my *parents* die."
#Capitalism #CapitalistRealism
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Yep, I know this reality.
This is late stage capitalism. This is neo-liberalism
""....What a why to live!? I can only have housing security, when my *parents* die."
#Capitalism #CapitalistRealism
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"The ghostly emptiness of capitalist realism obscures the potential for collective joy and abundance. Mark Fisher’s writing offers a glimpse of the possibilities that lie beyond the seeming inevitability of the present."
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism
#CapitalistRealism #MarkFisher #ArtificialScarcity #CulturalTheory
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Me ha gustado mucho este relato. Necesitamos ser conscientes de la realidad q tenemos pero como bien explica toda la teoría del Realismo Capitalista (q la mayor herramienta del sistema para dominarnos es q somos incapaces de ver alternativas vivibles) es imprescindible tb imaginar futuros posibles para poder en la medida de lo posible tender hacia ellos.
#permaculture #permacultura #solarpunk #CapitalistRealism #RealismoCapitalista #Utopia
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Me ha gustado mucho este relato. Necesitamos ser conscientes de la realidad q tenemos pero como bien explica toda la teoría del Realismo Capitalista (q la mayor herramienta del sistema para dominarnos es q somos incapaces de ver alternativas vivibles) es imprescindible tb imaginar futuros posibles para poder en la medida de lo posible tender hacia ellos.
#permaculture #permacultura #solarpunk #CapitalistRealism #RealismoCapitalista #Utopia
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So I just kind of stumbled across this, what do you all think of Mark Fisher? Probably unsurprisingly, I've never heard of him as I'm not really exposed much to academic or even populist philosophy at the moment. Is his work like, word salad post modernism, something more systematized, semiotics? Is this a faithful summary of this idea of how Capitalism cancels the future? Which sounds about right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPz3WjN0Po #Philosophy #CapitalistRealism #MarkFisher #FlammarionEngraving
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So I just kind of stumbled across this, what do you all think of Mark Fisher? Probably unsurprisingly, I've never heard of him as I'm not really exposed much to academic or even populist philosophy at the moment. Is his work like, word salad post modernism, something more systematized, semiotics? Is this a faithful summary of this idea of how Capitalism cancels the future? Which sounds about right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPz3WjN0Po #Philosophy #CapitalistRealism #MarkFisher #FlammarionEngraving
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Season 3 Episode 4: Capitalism, Community, and Friendship with Elia Ayoub
Why is it easier to imagine a zombie apocalypse than it is a generative, sustainable future? This question drives Elia Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times. Tune in today to listen to Ariel and Elia discussing imaginative expansion of solarpunk, the “realist” impulse, climate anxiety and grief, and community building in a crisis. Also The Office. Trust us, it’s an important part of this whole conversation.
Elia Ayoub is the host of The Fire These Times podcast and a Lebanese writer, researcher, scholar, editor and podcaster currently based in Switzerland since 2020. Join us for this thought-provoking and entertaining conversation.
#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #Community #Capitalism #Friendship #Anticapitalism #Hauntology @ayoub #Lebanon #TheFireTheseTimes #imagination #utopia #dystopia #future #futuring #CapitalistRealism #Hauntology #MarkFisher
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Season 3 Episode 4: Capitalism, Community, and Friendship with Elia Ayoub
Why is it easier to imagine a zombie apocalypse than it is a generative, sustainable future? This question drives Elia Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times. Tune in today to listen to Ariel and Elia discussing imaginative expansion of solarpunk, the “realist” impulse, climate anxiety and grief, and community building in a crisis. Also The Office. Trust us, it’s an important part of this whole conversation.
Elia Ayoub is the host of The Fire These Times podcast and a Lebanese writer, researcher, scholar, editor and podcaster currently based in Switzerland since 2020. Join us for this thought-provoking and entertaining conversation.
#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #Community #Capitalism #Friendship #Anticapitalism #Hauntology @ayoub #Lebanon #TheFireTheseTimes #imagination #utopia #dystopia #future #futuring #CapitalistRealism #Hauntology #MarkFisher
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"Machines will replace us" is the new Capitalist Realism paranoia. Is easier to imagine machines dominating us than realize the class and colonialist domination we already live in. The bourgeoisie owns the means of production, including technology. The answer is rebelling against the ruling class, not machines. Data sovreignity, tribal sovreignity and anti imperialism is the way for true independence.
#MarkFisher #CapitalistRealism #indigenous #comunism
🌐 https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ai-indigenous-languages-1.7290740?cmp=rss
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"In accepting the Googles & Facebooks of the world as our default information providers, we have made many bizarre compromises.
#capitalistrealism -> #PanglossianNeoliberalism
…this credo asserts that we already live in the best of all possible worlds (reflecting its Panglossian aspects) and that there is no alternative to the market-driven provision of our tech infrastructures (its neoliberal aspect)."
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"In accepting the Googles & Facebooks of the world as our default information providers, we have made many bizarre compromises.
#capitalistrealism -> #PanglossianNeoliberalism
…this credo asserts that we already live in the best of all possible worlds (reflecting its Panglossian aspects) and that there is no alternative to the market-driven provision of our tech infrastructures (its neoliberal aspect)."
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Liberal (to me, a leftist): Well I just need to be convinced that a better system is possible.
Me: So give us a chance to show you.
Liberal: No.
#politics #leftism #elections #psychicdamage #capitalistrealism #technofeudalism #uspol #usa #government #liberals #liberalism #defeatist #capitalism #anticapitalism -
Liberal (to me, a leftist): Well I just need to be convinced that a better system is possible.
Me: So give us a chance to show you.
Liberal: No.
#politics #leftism #elections #psychicdamage #capitalistrealism #technofeudalism #uspol #usa #government #liberals #liberalism #defeatist #capitalism #anticapitalism -
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2024.2368850
By the time Wooten was fired in 2014, Sophia Amoruso had published her book #Girlboss, and the version of feminism that prioritized beating men at their own capitalist game was ascendant (Banet-Weiser; McRobbie). Beth had been earning approximately $38,000 (about $48,000 in 2023 dollars), while the board of directors was dominated by women in real estate and finance. By the end of Covid, #Girlboss had largely been discredited and was blamed for toxic and racist work culture (Mull). There were serious disconnections between the actions and aspirations of the board, and the community of the camp.
#yuppies #yuppiescum #livingroomrealty #pdx #portland #oregon #classwar #killrockstars #sellouts #leanin #capitalistrealism #riotgrrrl #rnrc4g #rockcamp #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #realestate
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New intro because I've moved (town, not server):
I'm an #artist working primarily in #drawing, #photography, and #printmaking, based in #Hastings on the south coast of the UK. Portfolio & shop links in profile. Currently work on my Acid Renaissance series of #Artwork
I also blog frequently, covering topics such as my #Art, #AcidCommunism, #Anarchism, #Utopianism, #hauntology, #psychogeography, #CapitalistRealism, #Mythology, and #Folklore.
Me: he/him, cis, #anarchism, vegan, #goth.
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#AdTech:"Why are we repeating the same mistakes? Today we stand on the dawn of #cookiefree advertising, tasked with reimagining the world. Instead, we are dangerously close to a colossal failure of imagination. Our focus is on identity resolution graphs & hashed emails—the exact kind of tracking we had with #3rdParty cookies. Call it #SurveillanceCapitalism 2.0"
v. @remixtures
#CapitalistRealism
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The #long90s take, aligned with Mark Fisher's #CapitalistRealism, has some reflections on this cultural freeze. But it's proponents say it is over now.
https://jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/the-long-90s-is-over/
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It seems to be that we agree: #capitalism, which caused this problem, is incapable of solving it.
Fortunately (despite the lie of #CapitalistRealism) not everything must be in service of capitalism.
We as a society can choose to support the people doing the essential work of supporting our society.
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"This video examines an often quoted passage from #MarkFisher’s #CapitalistRealism that has become the focus of left meme makers in recent months due to its seemingly anti drug, anti student message. Here we ask whether Fisher really intended to chastise the youth. Could his critique be aimed at something deeper, such as systemic capitalism and the effect it has on young minds? And what would he make of today’s left wing meme lords and youtubers?"
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Good arguments for #capitalistrealism, where it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine an alternative to capitalism. #MarkFisher
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When you think about it, it was obvious that the #AI revolution would start in #art, #creativity and aesthetics because that is the arena of human emancipation, political formenting and #revolutionary potentialities.
Neoliberalism robbed us of the future that artistic rebellion promised, but at least we could still do it (just not for a career). Now, AI is robbing us of even doing it at all.