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# Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

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Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? - Kindle edition by Fisher, Mark. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?.

Review: An important, accessible starting place for the left - Fisher provides a short, clearly distilled analysis of the neoliberal (i.e. consumerist) superstructure that alienates people in capitalist societies. He's writing about the UK, but it reads equally well for Americans, which is part of the point – far from being the paragon of bold, individual expression its proponents claim, capitalism in fact molds societies in its image – endlessly reproducing profitable forms of art, culture, and entertainment, reluctant to challenge existing market orthodoxies in the chance such risks won't provide a strong enough ROI. The strongest part of Fisher's book is his direct challenge to the notion of "mental health problems" as individual pathologies – as random chemical imbalances in the individual consumer's neural makeup – rather than evidence of a social and political failure in the system at-large. Fisher challenges the left to "repoliticize" the mental health debate, to "transform the taken for granted into the up-for-grabs." The widespread crisis of depression, anxiety, ADHD, and bipolar disorders must be reframed as a priori evidence of the failures of the system – *not* as individualized flukes that can be resolved through medicine and training in order to better mold the individual into the system's image.
Review: A short book but chock full of information and ideas - This short book lead me to so many other books, writers/thinkers. One tiny criticism: I wish there was an index and bibliography. However a book that one can go back to again and again.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B008H3WB36 |
| Accessibility  | Learn more |
| Best Sellers Rank | #131,348 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #28 in Two-Hour Politics & Social Sciences Short Reads #79 in Popular Culture #81 in Political Philosophy (Kindle Store) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (3,127) |
| Enhanced typesetting  | Enabled |
| File size  | 573 KB |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1780997346 |
| Language  | English |
| Page Flip  | Enabled |
| Print length  | 91 pages |
| Publication date  | November 27, 2009 |
| Publisher  | Zer0 Books |
| Screen Reader  | Supported |
| Word Wise  | Enabled |
| X-Ray  | Enabled |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An important, accessible starting place for the left
*by A***N on February 15, 2021*

Fisher provides a short, clearly distilled analysis of the neoliberal (i.e. consumerist) superstructure that alienates people in capitalist societies. He's writing about the UK, but it reads equally well for Americans, which is part of the point – far from being the paragon of bold, individual expression its proponents claim, capitalism in fact molds societies in its image – endlessly reproducing profitable forms of art, culture, and entertainment, reluctant to challenge existing market orthodoxies in the chance such risks won't provide a strong enough ROI. The strongest part of Fisher's book is his direct challenge to the notion of "mental health problems" as individual pathologies – as random chemical imbalances in the individual consumer's neural makeup – rather than evidence of a social and political failure in the system at-large. Fisher challenges the left to "repoliticize" the mental health debate, to "transform the taken for granted into the up-for-grabs." The widespread crisis of depression, anxiety, ADHD, and bipolar disorders must be reframed as a priori evidence of the failures of the system – *not* as individualized flukes that can be resolved through medicine and training in order to better mold the individual into the system's image.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A short book but chock full of information and ideas
*by B***O on July 27, 2024*

This short book lead me to so many other books, writers/thinkers. One tiny criticism: I wish there was an index and bibliography. However a book that one can go back to again and again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent
*by A***R on March 5, 2010*

Anyone who believes Fisher's book is "Zizek-lite" (as in the case of the reviewer below) has clearly neither read Zizek nor Fisher. Zizek's work unfolds in and through the analysis of the cultural register or symbolic formations. While Fisher certainly has much to say about cultural artifacts, he also deftly analyzes contemporary structures of affectivity (such as the recent rise of depressive and anxiety disorders), as well as how the post-Fordist workplace is structured and what challenges these transformations entail for organizing and pursuing emancipatory politics. The reviewer below misses the key point of Fisher's analysis of students and schools today. Fisher is not setting out to *blame* students or shake his cane and declare with exasperation "these kids today!", but rather to analyze the new forms subjectivity is taking within our contemporary milieu and to analyze how the reigning apathy and ubiquitous (yet unsatisfying hedonism) that characterizes our cultural memory is a product of a social structure in which "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". Just as Voltaire's Candide suggested that we tend our gardens, the new form of subjectivity, discerning no limit to the horizon of capitalism seems to resign itself to dissatisfying small hedonistic pleasures as the only way to render life tolerable within such a hopeless situation. The question, then, is that of how it might become possible to begin imagining an alternative to current historical moment. What I appreciate most about Fisher's short little book is that it is not yet another cultural or ideological analysis of artifacts, focusing on texts and cultural artifacts like films, but that in manages to weave together this sort of ideology critique, with something like Foucaultian analysis of regimes of subjectivization and the subjectivity they produce, Jamesonian Marxist critique, Deleuze and Guattari's material analysis of desire, and good old fashioned Marxist material analysis of modes of production. Something new is brewing here that is much more than a onesided analysis of the ideological and symbolic, accounting simultaneously for concrete material conditions of production. Fisher's book is a terrific read, often illuminating obscure social, political, and cultural phenomena, proceeding in such a way that what initially seems random and without reason (apathy of students for example) becomes transformed into a genuine *symptom*, thereby opening a space of the political in response to what has been depoliticized. But above all, it is a book that aims straight at the heart of our contemporary malaise characterized by a sense of hopelessness and meaningless, at least doing some of the legwork that would help us to become engaged once again. Your ten dollars will not be wasted. Let us hope that Fisher develops his project in greater and more elaborate detail in the future. Levi R. Bryant, Collin College

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