Contemporary capitalist nihilism is a boring existential poverty

Evidence

ISIS holds up a mirror to twenty-first-century capitalist nihilism. This nihilism does not have the Mephistophelean fervour of nineteenth-century existentialism, nor is it the cold scientific nihilism described by Ray Brassier. This is a boring nihilism: an existential poverty that accompanies the material poverty into which capital plunges so many. A tiny minority escape material poverty, but only capital’s most devoted addicts can evade existential poverty. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2017

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the author’s capitalist-realism thesis about depression and boredom developed in the London Underground writing and elsewhere. — connects to: Capitalism offers no Cause worth dying for — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 726; Communicative capitalism sublates boredom into a fascination mixed with dread — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1634
• SHARE: The distinction of ‘boring nihilism’ vs Mephistophelean nineteenth-century and Brassier’s scientific nihilism is a tight taxonomy a philosophy-oriented friend would appreciate.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2017