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“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to imagine is what capitalism has done to our perception of time via clocks. It now seems embedded into our very psychology to view time as a commodity that can be spent or wasted.
Joe Zadeh • The Tyranny Of Time
“Affective labor” (AL) is used to describe new work activities in the service sector and to conceptualize the nature of work in the “post-Fordist” era. For some it is a synonym for “reproductive work” or a springboard for rethinking the fundamentals of feminist discourse.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’,
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Capitalism, Necromancy, and the Dark Side of Nostalgia
River Quintana
Feb 09, 2024
Some of the sources of Pop Art VI, Peter Blake
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Capitalism, it seems, can’t let go of the past. Like a necromancer, it reanimates the corpses of bygone trends, ideologies, and aesthetics, then sells them back to us at a markup. This... See more
River Quintana • The Cult of Yesterday
Harvey argues that neoliberalization is best conceived of as a ‘political project to re-establish the conditions for capital accumulation and to restore the power of economic elites’.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness:
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, NLR I/146, July–August 1984
Fredric Jamesonnewleftreview.orgNeoliberalism, with its uninhibited ego- and achievement-impulses, constitutes a social order from which eros has vanished entirely. The society of positivity, from which negativity has disappeared, is a society of bare life, which is dominated exclusively by the concern “to make sure of survival”22 in the face of discontinuity. This is a slave’s
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