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Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism"

Theory & Philosophy

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The Differences Between Postmodernism and Capitalism

Fisher says that capitalist realism is different from postmodernism in three ways. In the 80s, there were still alternatives to capitalism, at least ostensibly. Now we don't have that kind of antagonism. Jamison believed postmodernism to exist in proximity to modernism and therefore it kind of appropriated it. For Fisher, on the other hand, modernism has been completely eviscerated,. occasionally resurrected as what he calls a frozen aesthetic style, never as an ideal for living.

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