Capitalist realism absorbed art’s militancy through creative industries synergies.

Evidence

From Negri’s point of view, there is no contradiction between these two claims. What he is arguing is that an individual can never find his way out of despondency through art alone; rather, it is only by new forms of solidarity — which necessarily must involve art — that escape is possible. While the point about collectivity has never been more pressing, Negri’s hymning of art seems strangely nostalgic. For the era of capitalist realism has also seen all kinds of synergies between art and business, nowhere better summed up than in the concept of the “creative industries”. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1564

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalist commodification displaces the aesthetic value of art — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 69; Poptimism’s leveling of art and commerce destroyed art’s autonomy — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 844; Society neutralizes art’s subversive force by absorbing its antagonistic content. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 292 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Society neutralizes art’s subversive force by absorbing its antagonistic content. #expands (0.83) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 292
• Poptimism’s leveling of art and commerce destroyed art’s autonomy #complicates (0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 844
• A work faithfully depicting capitalist realism may thereby reinforce it #exemplifies (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2223
• Capitalist commodification displaces the aesthetic value of art #expands (0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 69