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)

Broader Connections