After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.
Mark Fisher is highly respected both as a music writer and a theorist. He writes regularly for The Wire, frieze, New Statesman, and Sight & Sound. He is a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University Of London, and maintains one of the most successful weblogs on cultural theory, k-punk (http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org)
- 资本主义现实主义是后89年代主导的意识形态框架
- 将心理健康问题视为政治经济后果而非个人故障
- 新自由主义反而制造了庞大且令人窒息的官僚系统
- 关注文化研究与政治经济学的读者
- 对晚期资本主义社会症候感到困惑的青年
- 对精神健康与社会结构关系感兴趣的读者
- 本书非学术专著，语言通俗但理论密度高
- 需结合齐泽克、詹姆逊等理论背景理解
- 注意作者对官僚主义与精神疾病关联的分析
- 精准诊断了当代人的焦虑与无力感
- 揭示了资本如何从精神紊乱诊断中获益
- 结尾在批判中保留了改变的可能与浪漫
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
- "How does a rationality that is expressly amoral at the level of both ends and means (neoliberalism) intersect with one that is expressly moral and regulatory (neoconservatism)? How does a project that empties the world of meaning, that cheapens and deracinates life and openly exploits desire, inters"
- "Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). 资本主义现实主义坚持将心理健康视为一种自然事实，就像天气一样（但话又说回来，天气如今也不再是一个自然事实，而更像是一种政治经济效应）。 ------------------ By privatizing these p"
- "精神上的痛苦也和作为一个整体的社会的结构性缺陷有关。"
- "With the triumph of neoliberalism, bureaucracy was supposed to have been made obsolete; a relic of an unlamented Stalinist past. Yet this is at odds with the experiences of most people working and living in late capitalism, for whom bureaucracy remains very much a part of everyday life. Instead of d"
- "The call center experience distils the political phenomenology of late capitalism: the boredom and frustration punctuated by cheerily piped PR, the repeating of the same dreary details many times to different poorly trained and badly informed operatives... 呼叫中心的体验提炼了晚期资本主义的政治现象学：被欢快的公关广播打断的无聊与挫败感，向不"
- "‘A guy told me one time’, says organized crime boss Neil McCauley in Michael Mann’s 1995 film Heat, ’Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner’. “有个家伙曾经告诉过我，”迈克尔·曼1995年的电影《盗火线》中的犯罪头目尼尔·麦考利说，“别让自己依附于任何东西，如果"
- "Some of Nietzsche’s most prescient pages are those in which he describes the ‘oversaturation of an age with history’. ‘It leads an age into a dangerous mood of irony in regard to itself, he wrote in Untimely Meditations, ‘and subsequently into the even more dangerous mood of cynicism’, in which ‘cos"
- "在智能手机确立霸权的几年前，此分析就直接切中了这个问题的要害：为什么虽然后现代资本主义社会看似自由，21世纪的青年文化却陷入了停滞？为什么在一个压迫个人的自由和满足被视为终极邪恶的历史时期，年轻人却感到如此地不满足，如此地缺乏活力？"