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Mark Fisher

  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    The response is nihilistic hedonism: ‘I try not to think about it’
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    That slogan captures precisely what I mean by ‘capitalist realism’: the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    I say ‘official’ hopes since neoliberalism surreptitiously relied on the state even while it has ideologically excoriated it. This was made spectacularly clear during the banking crisis of 2008, when, at the invitation of neoliberal ideologues, the state rushed in to shore up the banking system.)
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    Action is pointless; only senseless hope makes sense. Superstition and religion, the first resorts of the helpless, proliferate.
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    The focus shifts from the Next Big Thing to the last big thing – how long ago did it happen and just how big was it?
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    S. Eliot looms in the background of Children of Men, which, after all, inherits the theme of sterility from The Waste Land
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    at the same time, the established has to reconfigure itself in response to the new. Eliot’s claim was that the exhaustion of the future does not even leave us with the past. Tradition counts for nothing when it is no longer contested and modified
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    Like its Battersea hanging space in the film, the painting is accorded ‘iconic’ status only when it is deprived of any possible function or context. No cultural object can retain its power when there are no longer new eyes to see it.
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted10 months ago
    The ‘realism’ here is analogous to the deflationary perspective of a depressive who believes that any positive state, any hope, is a dangerous illusion
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