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Philosophy, Political, Business & Economics, Free Enterprise   After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic. Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the ‘age of work’ seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence – a ‘worker’s society’ in the worst sense of the term – where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what does the worker tell us today? "I feel drained, empty… dead." This book tells the story of the dead man working. It follows this figure through the daily tedium of the office, to the humiliating mandatory team building exercise, to awkward encounters with the funky b

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Author

Mark Fisher; Stuart Davies

Publisher

John Hunt Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846943171

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Political Science, Economics, Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (1,735 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13