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Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism"

Theory & Philosophy

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The Carceral State and the Ivory Tower

School is not then really like the ivory tower that it's made out to seem. It is instead what he calls the engine room of the reproduction of social reality. He says kind of tangentially that a meaningful undoing of capitalism demands a consideration of newness without it being for the sake of newness, right? So now he's going to consider more closely that is in the next chapter post-fortism and the distinction between fortism and post-fortISM.

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