Capitalism erases the shared natural imagery poetry once depended on

Evidence

The absence of abundance is already accepted. The metaphors of the nature poets, mapping human hearts through once commonly understood imagery, are irrelevant and impenetrable. “The sun of Winter/The moon of Summer, and all the singing birds/Except the missel-thrush that loves juniper/Are quite shut out.” I’m sorry. The missel-what? Can the juniper be monetised? Is this missel-thing for sale? Our children already have no stable baseline from which to calibrate the loss of all that lives. It’s game over. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1975

Categorization

• XREF: Strong resonance with Fisher’s running theme of cultural loss as invisible psychopathology (ch61, ch80) and working-class cultural erasure. — connects to: Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396; Capitalist commodification displaces the aesthetic value of art — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 69; Folk art depended on agrarian or simple-commodity social relations that no longer exist (+2 more)
• CANDY: The ‘missel-what? Can the juniper be monetised?’ inversion is a darkly funny, quotable riff on cultural and ecological loss.

Broader Connections

• Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism #expands (0.92) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396
• Capitalist commodification displaces the aesthetic value of art #expands (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 69
• Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature #responds-to (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 499
• Fine art loses aesthetic value when removed from its creative location into wealth #expands (0.72)
• Folk art depended on agrarian or simple-commodity social relations that no longer exist #exemplifies (0.70)