Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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A Fisher: Capitalist Realism - The Importance of Consumption
A fisher argues that capitalist realism has so thoroughly captured the public's mind that even the idea of anti capitalism becomes incorporated into capitalist culture. In many ways, Fisher expands all this, and he refines it ather bit by singling out the live eht concert in two thousand and fived. The protest impulse of the sixties posited a malevolent father, the harbinger of a reality principle that supposedly cruelly and arbitrarily denies the right to total enjoyment. Yet it's not capitalism, but protest itself, which depends upon this figuration of the father.
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