Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

Essential read for anyone interested in capitalism and the effects on society.

Recommended reading for anyone struggling to make sense of the hyper connected world.Packed with insight and layered with astute references.

Read it, though short, it is profound. It may not change your life, but it might change how you view your life and your goals.

Simple, elegant, functional - second one of these we've had, the first one lasted for over ten years before it needed replacing with this one.

I always enjoy reading a book that suggests "Instead of worrying about what is wrong with you because you don't feel wholly part of the world, why don't you ask what is wrong with the world instead?" - this is that book.

Great read

It includes several concepts which are not explained throughout the book. A perfect example is the actual concepts of both capitalist and realism. It was never clear to me what definition (or aspects of it) were being addressed. However, it does elaborate on the idea of capitalism (or in my interpretation, the current system that is not good) being an idea that we fail to challenge. But then again, not too much. It is simply too open to interpretation to a point that you could replace capitalist in capitalism realism with whatever you dislike about the current day that doesn’t look like it can change.

Have you ever figured how to explain what we are going through in society now? We have many theories but this one explains it down to the grain, simply and clearly, would love to know how we can propagate solution!

Me sorprende que Fisher toque temas que ya venían tocando desde los 70's los intelectuales franceses. Aunque no es un libro novedoso, es un libro sin los tecnicismo y el misticismo de los deconstructores franceses como Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze y Baudrillard, así que es una forma adecuada de acercarse a la hipertelia sin complicarse la vida con términos complejos de los franceses.

Insightful and compelling, if a bit surface-level.

Capitalist Realism sums up what is lurKing in the depth of our collective subconscious, a chimeric shark that rules us all since the ages of the pharaohs, god of the Capital religion, soul of our money (liquid divine right), and our personal subconscious is but a reflection of this archetYpe of archetype, an apeirotype that mUst be tRanscENded. A religion that needS massIve apostasy from all the pisces-pisces of the social aquarium so that the end of the age of pisces may come.