![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. ![]() The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Socialist Standard A provocative and necessary read.for anyone wanting to talk seriously about the politics of education today. It is a sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free market neo-liberalism are givens rather than constructions. Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin and Kafka), work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience, is anything but realistic and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged. The book explores Fisher's concept of 'capitalist realism,' which he takes to describe '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. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. A PDF of the book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative by Mark Fisher, published by Zero Books. Fishers book on Capitalist Realism remains a popular reference point for many would be anti-capitalists in the UK. 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. Reflections on Mark Fishers Essay on 'Capitalist Realism'. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. ![]()
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