Late-capitalist catastrophe is a slow unraveling rather than an event.

Evidence

The catastrophe in Children of Men is neither waiting down the road, nor has it already happened. Rather, it is being lived through. There is no punctual moment of disaster; the world doesn’t end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart. What caused the catastrophe to occur, who knows; its cause lies long in the past, so absolutely detached from the present as to seem like the caprice of a malign being: a negative miracle, a malediction which no penitence can ameliorate. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 9

Categorization

• CANDY: ‘The world doesn’t end with a bang, it winks out, unravels’ is a quotable counterpoint to Eliot’s famous line.
• XREF: connects to: Late-capitalist dystopia depicts catastrophe as an ongoing lived condition rather than a punctual event — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 7; A foreshortened temporal perspective blinds people to accumulating catastrophe; The left’s defeat may have been a slow disintegration rather than a battle — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 276

Related

• Late-capitalist dystopia depicts catastrophe as an ongoing lived condition rather than a punctual event (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Late-capitalist dystopia depicts catastrophe as an ongoing lived condition rather than a punctual event #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 7
• A foreshortened temporal perspective blinds people to accumulating catastrophe #expands (0.78)
• The left’s defeat may have been a slow disintegration rather than a battle #exemplifies (0.72) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 276