Capitalism's Mental Prison
We explore Mark Fisher's haunting idea that imagining the end of the world is easier than envisioning alternatives to capitalism, examining how market logic colonizes consciousness and limits our collective imagination.
Bestes Zitat aus Capitalism's Mental Prison
Capitalist realism is this pervasive sense that capitalism is the only viable economic and political system, and that it's impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative to it. If we can't imagine alternatives, we can't create them.
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Modern philosophy, post-capitalism, Zizek, Chomsky, Fisher, Fromm etc., humanist, liberal
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