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cutting workers away altogether inspo/anti-capitalism project/billboards

The ultimate fantasy here – the ultimate fantasy of Capital ‘itself’ – is of cutting workers away altogether. Capital’s libidinal metaphysics is a kind of cosmic libertarianism: Capital identifies itself as a force of unbounded energy, whose capacity for infinite accumulation is obstructed only by …

—p.603 K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher Democracy is Joy (599) by Mark Fisher
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an eternal shopping mall surrounded by a sweatshop project/billboards

Can we be guided by these lights, instead of by the Olympic flame, a symbol of a capital now more globalised than ever, the ultra-bright striplights drawing planetary destiny into an eternal shopping mall surrounded by a sweatshop?

—p.717 No Future 2012 (713) by Mark Fisher
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capitalism is not bad because CEOs are uniquely evil inspo/anti-capitalism

The problem with late capitalism is not the greed of capitalists. That's the difference between a Marxist analysis and an ethical one - the Marxist one will focus on systems, forms of organisation are central. Capitalism is not bad because CEOs are uniquely evil. It's the other way around. Anyone w…

—p.641 Capitalist Realism: Interviewed by Richard Capes (2011) (637) by Mark Fisher
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desire is always composed project/billboards

In addition to the plasticity of organizational form, we need also to pay attention to the plasticity of desire. Freud said that the libidinal drives are “extraordinarily plastic”. If desire is not a fixed biological essence, then there is no natural desire for capitalism. Desire is always composed…

—p.544 How to Kill a Zombie: Strategising the End of Neoliberalism (539) by Mark Fisher
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not just that people are persuaded of certain beliefs inspo/anti-capitalism

There is a problem, however, in seeing capitalist realism just as a belief and an attitude, in that both are based on individual psychology. The discussion needed is one that interrogates where those beliefs and attitudes come from, for what we are actually dealing with is the social decompositio…

—p.522 Not Failing Better, but Fighting to Win (521) by Mark Fisher