#sicilia #sicily #happyisland #isolafelice #italy
#Banksy #RealismoCapitalista #Modica #MostraBanksy #ArteContemporanea #Iconico #ArtistaControverso #ExConventoDelCarmine #Cultura #EventiModica #Arte #VisitaModica #CapitalistRealism #BanksyExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Iconic #ControversialArtist #Culture #EventsModica #Art #VisitModica
https://www.guidasicilia.it/evento/-banksy-realismo-capitalista-a-modica-la-mostra-dell-artista-piu-controverso-e-iconico-del-nostro-tempo/3026407
#capitalistRealism
#TheMonkey embodies a manipulative dimension: it returns repeatedly, regardless of attempts to dispose of it. This indestructibility reflects how capitalist consumer culture has immunized itself against all attempts at its overcoming. As #MarkFisher demonstrated in his analysis of #capitalistrealism, drawing on Slavoj Žižek and Fredric Jameson, it has “become impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative to capitalism.” https://boxd.it/9ZpL3n
Fight #capitalistrealism:
"Let me be clear: #Truth matters. #Documentation matters. Fighting #corruption matters. That #accountability seems out of reach right now doesn’t change that. When we internalize the belief that nothing can change, we stop demanding change. When we dismiss documentation of wrongdoing as pointless, we give wrongdoers exactly what they want: permission to continue unchecked and with no record of their actions."
@molly0xfff
https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/
That inner voice saying, "Surely if this were real, more people would be talking about it?” is social media’s greatest success: it doesn’t silence dissent—it makes dissenters doubt themselves into silence. 🔚
What are your thoughts? #DigitalPacification
#SocialMediaControl #SurveillanceSociety #RadicalResurgence #NewWorldOrder
#CageOfExpression #ResistanceInTheDigitalAge
#TechAndTerrorism #CapitalistRealism #FoucaultAndControl #SocialMediaDoubt
#RadicalDisruption #FightingTheSystem
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(3/4) The US has been undergoing #hypernormalization for at least a decade now, and perhaps since the 2008 financial meltdown. Nobody sees any serious alternative, hence Fisher’s #CapitalistRealism.
At the same time, #LeftistMelancholia has prevented any serious opposition.
Our gerontocratic politicians still behave as if it’s the 20th century.
We are in a brave new world, and old political tactics are obsolete. Our problem is a failure of imagination—we’re consumed by things as they are.
The more I play Monopoly Go, or other capitalist realism games, the more I'm convinced money is an illusion.
In other news, please buy my books.
Money may be an illusion, but society still requires it of me.
#capitalism #gaming #capitalistrealism #selfpromo #bookpromo #weliveinasociety
A corollary to not being able to #imagine anything other than #capitalism is imagining #anarchists as #ancaps. This adds to the difficulty #liberals have with comprehending us.
#CapitalistRealism
Yep, I know this reality.
This is late stage capitalism. This is neo-liberalism
""....What a why to live!? I can only have housing security, when my *parents* die."
#Capitalism #CapitalistRealism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldL1oY7nSl0&t=78
"The ghostly emptiness of capitalist realism obscures the potential for collective joy and abundance. Mark Fisher’s writing offers a glimpse of the possibilities that lie beyond the seeming inevitability of the present."
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism
#CapitalistRealism #MarkFisher #ArtificialScarcity #CulturalTheory
Me ha gustado mucho este relato. Necesitamos ser conscientes de la realidad q tenemos pero como bien explica toda la teoría del Realismo Capitalista (q la mayor herramienta del sistema para dominarnos es q somos incapaces de ver alternativas vivibles) es imprescindible tb imaginar futuros posibles para poder en la medida de lo posible tender hacia ellos.
#permaculture #permacultura #solarpunk #CapitalistRealism #RealismoCapitalista #Utopia
So I just kind of stumbled across this, what do you all think of Mark Fisher? Probably unsurprisingly, I've never heard of him as I'm not really exposed much to academic or even populist philosophy at the moment. Is his work like, word salad post modernism, something more systematized, semiotics? Is this a faithful summary of this idea of how Capitalism cancels the future? Which sounds about right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPz3WjN0Po #Philosophy #CapitalistRealism #MarkFisher #FlammarionEngraving
Since 2024 has been such an "interesting" year for elections; a reminder that morality is required to parse out the onslaught of suffering - current and incoming (📈). There's zero chance for "worker revolution" without a moral revolution for the simple fact that capitalism doesn't have its borders at the "work place". Capitalism's borders are somewhere between one's neurons, inside one's head, which is also where revolution must start.
This extract from a recent Rob Horning newsletter left me thinking about my frustration with ‘AI realism‘ in the mode of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism. Horning describes what we could think of as the impasse of atomisation:
The Verge articles take it for granted that this “we” won’t come together and will never be ready — it takes tech companies to have already achieved their basic goal of atomizing and isolating everyone into discrete but fungible units that can’t form collectivities on their own terms, that are only ever “populations” bracketed and processed into different sets by some higher controlling force. The articles assume, perhaps correctly, that the possibility of conceiving collective responsibility, of having any faith in other people to do anything other than what strikes them as most convenient in any given moment (as tech companies have instructed them, promising endless amounts of pleasure if they do), has been extinguished.
https://robhorning.substack.com/p/fragments-scraps-the-bits-and-greasy
In making this assumption, which he acknowledges might be correct, we are affirming there’s little possibility for responding to emerging technologies in organised and collective ways. There’s a degree of performativity at work here in the sense that affirming that we are already atomised contributes to that atomisation by perpetuating a social imaginary which is atomised. However in spite of the magical thinking which late-stage poststructuralism was sometimes prone to generating, simply pointing to that performativity doesn’t impact upon the reality the claim designates (fallibly or otherwise).
It confuses the discursive act with the sociopolitical reality in relation to which that action takes place. Those discursive acts certainly, in their totality, contribute to the constitution of that sociopolitical reality but (a) they do not determine it (b) their causal influence is about transformation or reproduction. The causality operates through the role social imaginaries play in conditions agency, rather than be something which operates in a quasi-autonomous way. There’s a degree of performativity but it’s not, so to speak, performative all the way down. Nor is it performative in the present tense.
https://markcarrigan.net/2024/09/15/the-cultural-politics-of-ai-and-the-impasse-of-atomisation/
#AIRealism #capitalistRealism #performativity #poststructuralism #RobHorning #sociotechnicalImaginary
When I peer into a possible future, I rarely ever want it. #CapitalistRealism
Season 3 Episode 4: Capitalism, Community, and Friendship with Elia Ayoub
Why is it easier to imagine a zombie apocalypse than it is a generative, sustainable future? This question drives Elia Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times. Tune in today to listen to Ariel and Elia discussing imaginative expansion of solarpunk, the “realist” impulse, climate anxiety and grief, and community building in a crisis. Also The Office. Trust us, it’s an important part of this whole conversation.
Elia Ayoub is the host of The Fire These Times podcast and a Lebanese writer, researcher, scholar, editor and podcaster currently based in Switzerland since 2020. Join us for this thought-provoking and entertaining conversation.
#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #Community #Capitalism #Friendship #Anticapitalism #Hauntology @ayoub #Lebanon #TheFireTheseTimes #imagination #utopia #dystopia #future #futuring #CapitalistRealism #Hauntology #MarkFisher
"Machines will replace us" is the new Capitalist Realism paranoia. Is easier to imagine machines dominating us than realize the class and colonialist domination we already live in. The bourgeoisie owns the means of production, including technology. The answer is rebelling against the ruling class, not machines. Data sovreignity, tribal sovreignity and anti imperialism is the way for true independence.
#MarkFisher #CapitalistRealism #indigenous #comunism
🌐 https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ai-indigenous-languages-1.7290740?cmp=rss
"In accepting the Googles & Facebooks of the world as our default information providers, we have made many bizarre compromises.
#capitalistrealism -> #PanglossianNeoliberalism
…this credo asserts that we already live in the best of all possible worlds (reflecting its Panglossian aspects) and that there is no alternative to the market-driven provision of our tech infrastructures (its neoliberal aspect)."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/can-ai-break-out-of-panglossian-neoliberalism/
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