1968年生まれ。イギリスの批評家。ウォーリック大学で博士号を取得した後、英国継続教育カレッジ、およびゴールドスミス・カレッジ視覚文化学科で客員研究員・講師を務める。著書に『資本主義リアリズム』、The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson(2009年)、Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures(2014年)、The Weird and the Eerie(2017年)。2017年1月逝去。
1968年生まれ。イギリスの批評家。ウォーリック大学で博士号を取得した後、英国継続教育カレッジ、およびゴールドスミス・カレッジ視覚文化学科で客員研究員・講師を務める。著書に『資本主義リアリズム』、The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson(2009年)、Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures(2014年)、The Weird and the Eerie(2017年)。2017年1月逝去。
How does a rationality that is expressly amoral at the level of both ends and means (neoliberalism) intersect with one that is expressly moral and regulatory (neoconservatism)? How does a project that empties the world of meaning, that cheapens and deracinates life and openly exploits desire, intersect one centered on fixing and enforcing meanings, conserving certain ways of life, and repressing and regulating desire? How does support for governance modeled on the firm and a normative social fabric of self-interest marry or jostle against support for governance modeled on church authority and a normative social fabric of self-sacrifice and long-term filial loyalty, the very fabric shredded by unbridled capitalism?
Mark Fisher. (Zero Books) Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism_ Is there no alt... (查看原文)
Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect).
资本主义现实主义坚持将心理健康视为一种自然事实,就像天气一样(但话又说回来,天气如今也不再是一个自然事实,而更像是一种政治经济效应)。
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By privatizing these problems – treating them as if they were caused only by chemical imbalances in the individual’s neurology and/or by their family background – any question of social systemic causation is ruled out.
通过将这些问题私有化——把它们仅仅看作是由个体神经系统中的化学物质失衡和/或其家庭背景引起的——任何关于社会系统性成因的追问都被排除了。
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Depression is usually characterized as a state of anhedonia, but the condition I’m referring to is constituted not by an inability to get pleasure so much as it by an inability to do anything else except pur... (查看原文)
1 有用 shshsh1.0 2021-06-13 18:26:59
無力感…