perhaps even more importantly, the funding structures themselves are completely uninteresting. anything funded by a grant is just blandly mimetic of the institution's ideology. movies used to be dreams emanating from the unconscious of capital but capital has lost its imagination
perhaps even more importantly, the funding structures themselves are completely uninteresting. anything funded by a grant is just blandly mimetic of the institution's ideology. movies used to be dreams emanating from the unconscious of capital but capital has lost its imagination
In movies, TV, and video games: cinematic universes. Studios have finally figured out that once audiences fall in love with fictional worlds, they want to spend lots of time in them.
Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
The unabated “creative destruction” of one kind of capital after another has only further increased the wealth of a few and done nothing to emancipate the overall collective creative spirit, which has remained stagnant. Today, almost every artistic effort inevitably (perhaps unknowingly) reinscribes the values of the ruling capitalist class.
GD Dess • Cultural Dopes
Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called ‘interpassivity’: the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity.