Emancipatory politics must denaturalize the seemingly necessary
Evidence
As any number of radical theorists from Brecht through to Foucault and Badiou have maintained, emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 37
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Realism is naturalized ideology, and today’s realistic was yesterday’s impossible — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 37
Related
- Realism is naturalized ideology, and today’s realistic was yesterday’s impossible (similarity 0.82)
- Capitalist realism restricts the horizon of what is politically possible (similarity 0.79)
- Ideology succeeds only when naturalized from value into fact (similarity 0.79)