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Mark Fisher's 'Flatline Constructs': Reading Group Wrap Up #1 (Zer0/Repeater)

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The Line of Flight of Capitalist Realism

There's more of a lineage about thinking about political futurity and politics is almost entirely absent from flatline constructs. The words left and right don't even appear in flat line constructs. It's no coincidence that there's not because the capitalism we're dealing with is beyond human agency. Deleuze and Gatori say that within the context of capitalism, all transactions, all accruals of profit, all negative externalities, all appear rational.

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