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

TRASHFUTURE

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Capitalism in Action Socially

The term was originally used by a German painter called Gerhard Richter who included the phrase in the name for one of his shows that was talking about how capitalism has its own forms of propaganda. It is more like a pervasive atmosphere conditioning not only the production of culture, but also the regulation of work and education. And this is an idea that sort of comes out in Jijek as well, which is sort of the idea that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

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