Charity’s ethical immediacy suspends politics and systemic change
Evidence
The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could end famine directly, without the need for any kind of political solution or systemic reorganization. It is necessary to act straight away, we were told; politics has to be suspended in the name of ethical immediacy. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 34
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: ‘ethical immediacy’ as depoliticization — tracing how caring-individual appeals to act now have legitimated capital since 1985.
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Individual charity cannot substitute for systemic justice. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 317; Consumption-based charity substitutes for and eliminates collective political response — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1465; Political agency cannot be grasped apart from ethical agency — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 253 (+1 more)
Related
- Live Aid framed famine as solvable by individuals without systemic politics (similarity 0.87)
- Consumption-based charity substitutes for and eliminates collective political response (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Consumption-based charity substitutes for and eliminates collective political response
#corroborates(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1465 - Political agency cannot be grasped apart from ethical agency
#complicates(0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 253