Loss of connected public space sustains the feeling that no alternative exists

Evidence

And it’s this decline of a public space which we can have any connection with. And it massively contributes to this sense that there’s no alternative to the way things are. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2107

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fisher’s famous ‘no alternative’ / capitalist realism thesis elsewhere in K-Punk. — connects to: Urban alienation grows with the mental unmappability of city space — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 889; Union decline parallels the erosion of free public space — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 79; Psychic well-being fundamentally depends on the existence of public space — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1503 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Psychic well-being fundamentally depends on the existence of public space #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1503
• Urban alienation grows with the mental unmappability of city space #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 889
• The possibility of alienation depends on the feeling of lost necessity. #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1116
• Union decline parallels the erosion of free public space #exemplifies (0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 79
• Failed socialization forces revolutionary alternatives into the vacuum #qualifies (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 30