Capitalist Realism Quotes

“Contemporary culture has eliminated both the concept of the
public and the gure of the intellectual. Former public spaces -
both physical and cultural- are now either derelict or colonized
by advertising. A cretinous anti-intellectualism presides,
cheerled by expensively educated hacks in the pay of
multinational corporations who reassure their bored readers
that there is no need to rouse themselves from their interpassive
stupor. The informal censorship internalized and propagated by
the cultural workers of late capitalism generates a banal
conformity that the propaganda chiefs of Stalinism could only
ever have dreamt of imposing.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

“Many of the teenage students I encountered seemed to be in a
state of what I would call depressive hedonia. Depression is
Usually characterized as a state of anhedonia, but the condition
I'm referring to is constituted not by an inability to get pleasure
so much as it by an inability to do anything else except pursue
pleasure.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?