Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

Mark Fisher

Nov 2009 · John Hunt Publishing

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Illuminating and invigorating, proving more prescient than ever in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book outlines a clear vision of the crossroads at which we stand for global capitalism. A quick, thought-provoking read.

An excellent book that catalogs events past and present into a narrative hard to deny: Capitalism is a snake close to eating itself but only after it consumes everything else. A clarion call to consider alternatives to a system built to deny them.

Fr