Adaptation to conditions has become the strategy of managerialism itself

Evidence

In any case, resistance to the ‘new’ is not a cause that the left can or should rally around. Capital thought very carefully about how to break labor; yet there has still not yet been enough thought about what tactics will work against capital in conditions of post-Fordism, and what new language can be innovated to deal with those conditions. It is important to contest capitalism’s appropriation of ‘the new’, but to reclaim the ‘new’ can’t be a matter of adapting to the conditions in which we find ourselves –we’ve done that rather too well, and ‘successful adaptation’ is the strategy of managerialism par excellence. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 62

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts the usual left appeal to flexibility and adaptation, showing that ‘successful adaptation’ is a managerialist strategy, not an oppositional one.
• XREF: connects to: Adaptation to conditions is itself now managerial, not radical. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 62; Capitalism transforms itself as a survival strategy yet can undergo epoch-changing change — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 118; The situation resembles an evolutionary environment structuring adaptation — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 444 (+4 more)

Related

• Adaptation to conditions is itself now managerial, not radical. (similarity 0.94)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism transforms itself as a survival strategy yet can undergo epoch-changing change #expands (0.82) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 118
• Employability is a neo-management notion of supple adaptability #exemplifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 152
• The situation resembles an evolutionary environment structuring adaptation #expands (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 444
• Capitalism’s resilience comes from its plasticity in adopting new social forms #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1647
• Organizations pursue survival through resistance, self-affirmation, and adaptation #expands (0.72) — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 71
• Corporate culture serves as an ideological cover for risk-shifting management strategies #qualifies (0.70) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 290