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Capitalist Realism Defined
- Capitalist realism is the pervasive belief that capitalism is the only viable system.
- This stifles political imagination, making it easier to envision the apocalypse than capitalism's end.
Capitalism and The Real
- Lacan's "Real" is an unchangeable truth, often traumatic to confront.
- Capitalism offers constructed realities to shield us from this Real, promoting a sense of permanence.
*Wall-E* and Catastrophe
- Fisher uses the film Wall-E to illustrate how capitalism handles environmental catastrophe.
- Capitalism incorporates the catastrophe as a temporary glitch, solvable by the market.