Capitalist realism reduces historical time to technological upgrades
Evidence
The arrival of what I have called capitalist realism — the widespread acceptance that there is no alternative to capitalism — therefore meant the end of these new productive, perceptual, cognitive and libidinal possibilities. It meant that we would be reduced to the same old seeing, hearing, thinking, loving… forever. Fredric Jameson long ago argued that postmodernism was the cultural logic of late capitalism, and the features that Jameson claimed were characteristic of the postmodern — pastiche, the collapse of historicity — are now ubiquitous. The only future that capital can reliably deliver is technological — we count historical time not in cultural shifts, but in technological upgrades, watching the same old things on higher definition screens. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1906
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Capitalist realism makes past cultural possibilities seem impossible retroactively — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2170; Historical economism reduces history to individual greed and technical change — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 710; Time now gets marked by technical upgrades rather than cultural forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1254 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Time now gets marked by technical upgrades rather than cultural forms
#corroborates(0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1254 - Capitalist realism makes past cultural possibilities seem impossible retroactively
#expands(0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2170 - Historical economism reduces history to individual greed and technical change
#corroborates(0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 710 - Capitalist technological history divides into three machine revolutions
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