Adaptation to conditions is itself now managerial, not radical.
Evidence
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
- APHORISMS: A genuinely useful warning: ‘successful adaptation is the strategy of managerialism’ — staying nimble is not the same as opposing the system that demands nimbleness.
- XREF: connects to: Adaptation to conditions has become the strategy of managerialism itself — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 62; Enduring commons persist through flexible adaptation, not frozen tradition. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 92; Flexibility demands adaption to a world that lacks continuity itself. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 169 (+1 more)
Related
- Adaptation to conditions has become the strategy of managerialism itself (similarity 0.94)
- Flexibility demands adaption to a world that lacks continuity itself. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Adaptation to conditions has become the strategy of managerialism itself
#corroborates(0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 62 - Flexibility demands adaption to a world that lacks continuity itself.
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 169 - Enduring commons persist through flexible adaptation, not frozen tradition.
#complicates(0.75) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 92 - The situation resembles an evolutionary environment structuring adaptation
#expands(0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 444