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Capitalist Realism

by Mark Fisher
Russell Brand
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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. 
Since the events of 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system — a situation that the banking crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. 
This book analyses the development and principal features of this "capitalist realism" as a lived ideological framework. 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 and is anything but realistic, and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged. 
A sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free-market neoliberalism are givens rather than constructions, Capitalist Realism is one of the most important political books of the last decade.
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Publisher: Watkins Media Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781913462826
  • File size: 81028 KB
  • Release date: March 9, 2021
  • Duration: 02:48:48

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  • ISBN: 9781913462826
  • File size: 81038 KB
  • Release date: March 9, 2021
  • Duration: 02:50:47
  • Number of parts: 3

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History Politics Nonfiction

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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. 
Since the events of 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system — a situation that the banking crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. 
This book analyses the development and principal features of this "capitalist realism" as a lived ideological framework. 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 and is anything but realistic, and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged. 
A sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free-market neoliberalism are givens rather than constructions, Capitalist Realism is one of the most important political books of the last decade.
Expand title description text
History Politics Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Watkins Media
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781913462826
    File size: 81028 KB
    Release date: March 9, 2021
    Duration: 02:48:48

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781913462826
    File size: 81038 KB
    Release date: March 9, 2021
    Duration: 02:50:47
    Number of parts: 3

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English