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*Unlocked* Riley's Commie Book Club: Mark Fisher

TRASHFUTURE

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Postmodernism and Capitalism

The arrival of what I have called capitalist realism meant the end to these new productive perceptual cognitive and libidinal possibilities. Frederick Jamison long ago argued that postmodernism was the cultural logic of late capitalism in the features that Jamison claimed were characteristic of the postmodern. The only feature that capital can reliably deliver is technological. We count historical time, not in cultural shifts, but in technological upgrades,. watching the same old things on high definition screens.

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