Anti-finance-capital fiction often retreats to nostalgic older forms of capitalism

Evidence

There is no doubt that the film poses finance capital as a problem that will be solved by the return of a re-personalised captal, with “the enlightened despot” Bruce taking on the role of the dead Thomas. It is equally clear, as we’ve already seen, that Batman Begins is unable to envisage an alternative to capitalism itself, favouring instead a nostalgic rewind to prior forms of capitalism. (One of the structuring fantasies of the film is the notion that crime and social disintegration are exclusively the results of capitalist failure, rather than the inevitable accompaniments to capitalist “success”.) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 431

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674; Self-described new economic thinking at INET recycled old nostalgic tropes — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 13; Capitalism channels political resistance into distorted forms like right-wing anti-corporate nostalgia — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1538

Broader Connections

• Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674
• Self-described new economic thinking at INET recycled old nostalgic tropes #exemplifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 13