
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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Is It Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of Capitalism?
Capitalist realism is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture, but also the regulation of work and education. So it's sort of, this is ambient background, sort of just constriction on thought and political imagination. The end than the end of capitalism is either attributed to am frederick jamieson or slapo. We we were exhausted imaginatively, that even in the midst of distopia, you can have enternment camps in the same world that you have starbucks coffeed coffee franchises everywhere. Even when we reach the end of the world, we don't escape capitalism, right?
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