Mark Fisher ,,Capitalist Realism”

Mark Fisher (1968–2017) was a British cultural theorist, music critic and lecturer who emerged in the turn-of-the-century blogosphere under the name k-punk. In addition to “Capitalist realism”, the book “Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures” (2014) and posthumously the books “The Weird and The Eerie”  (2017) and a large collection of unpublished writings “k-punk” (2018).

Mark Fisher’s “Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?” the book is a revelatory description of the social and cultural atmosphere of the last few decades, which the author refers to as “capitalist realism” and which represents a “broad recognition that capitalism is not only the only functioning political and economic system, but that today it is impossible to even find any competent alternative to it imagine”. The book, which grew out of Fisher’s keen sense of crisis, vividly reveals the far-reaching symptoms of this situation. He traces the impact of modern social order on cultural perception, how the human nervous system adapts to changes in the social fabric, as well as the impact of capitalist realism on mental health and bureaucracy, especially the education system.

The book is supplemented by an afterword by Tõnis Kahu.

Publisher: Estonian Academy of Arts
Year of publication: 2019
Editor: Anti Saar
Author: Mark Fisher
Designer: Maria Muuk
Language editor: Tiina Hallik
Translator: Neeme Lopp
Format: paperback
Language: Estonian
Pages: 124
Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.9 cm
ISBN: 9789949594795

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