Decline of mediating institutions privatises stress into the domestic sphere

Evidence

But where between the individual and the state — there’s nothing in the space anymore. The space that trade unions used to occupy — well, people could feel then a direct connection between there own working lives and a wider political world and have some sense of agency because of that. That space was gone and people were… There’s this process of what I’ve called the “privatisation of stress” or general psychic privatisation. You get to own your own home, but your home becomes this place of refuge and consolation in a world where — because outside it public space is massively denuded. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2107

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fisher names and defines his concept of ‘privatisation of stress’ or ‘general psychic privatisation’.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 42; Public institutions once absorbed workplace stress; today individuals absorb it themselves. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2120; Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1601 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Public institutions once absorbed workplace stress; today individuals absorb it themselves. #expands (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2120
• Post-Fordist restructuring privatised individual workers’ experience of systemic economic stress #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1490
• Neoliberal welfare policy has privatized stress and depoliticized depression #exemplifies (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost #corroborates (0.88) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 42
• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #expands (0.86) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Modernism emerged as private emotional life displaced a withering public sphere under market penetration #expands (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 228
• Widespread discontent is privatised into consumption and social-media venting #exemplifies (0.84) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1355
• Market penetration shifted emotional investment into the private sphere #expands (0.82)
• Social media promotes an ideal of privatizing the self into corporate form #exemplifies (0.78) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 354
• Feminist strategy reverses public-private hierarchy as a political move #responds-to (0.72) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 281