Class antagonism is the unrepresentable Real beneath any realism.

Evidence

Potter’s challenges to naturalism then, become far more than mere PoMo trickery. His foregrounding of the way in which fictions structure reality, and of the role that television itself plays in this process, brings to the fore all the ontological issues that worthier, more traditional social realist writers conceal or distort. There is no realism, Potter suggests, beyond the Real of class antagonism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 505

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 40; Realism requires access to any rising class, not specifically capitalism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 405; Class antagonism cannot be deduced from the concept of capital. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 298 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Class antagonism cannot be deduced from the concept of capital. #corroborates (0.85) — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 298
• Realism requires access to any rising class, not specifically capitalism #qualifies (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 405
• The Real reasserts itself through attempts to flee it. #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 518