Fantasy’s rise tracks capitalism’s defeat of alternative reality structures

Evidence

The rise of fantasy as a genre over the last twenty-five years can be directly correlative with the collapse of any effective alternative reality structure outside capitalism in the same period. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 376

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the book’s running claim that broadcast media once carried a cross-class alternative to consumer commonsense, and that its collapse correlates with a cultural vacating of alternatives. — connects to: Adult consumer reality is itself a fantasy that suppresses the uncanny — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 375; Speculative imagination is a generative social force integrated into everyday capitalist life — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 74; Fantasy ideology smuggles feudal nostalgia into imagined other worlds — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1104 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Speculative imagination is a generative social force integrated into everyday capitalist life #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 74
• Finance capitalism now shapes collective imagination the way print capitalism built nations #corroborates (0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 271
• Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674
• Finance shapes modern societies’ collective myths and imagined communities, not just economies #corroborates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 19
• Radically open, recomposable realities in culture mirror late capitalism’s care-destroying impermanence #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 759
• Fantasy ideology smuggles feudal nostalgia into imagined other worlds #qualifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1104