Protest depends on positing a hoarding Father the global elite avoids embodying

Evidence

The protest impulse of the 60s posited a malevolent Father, the harbinger of a reality principle that (supposedly) cruelly and arbitrarily denies the ‘right’ to total enjoyment. This Father has unlimited access to resources, but he selfishly – and senselessly – hoards them. Yet it is not capitalism but protest itself which depends upon this figuration of the Father; and one of the successes of the current global elite has been their avoidance of identification with the figure of the hoarding Father, even though the ‘reality’ they impose on the young is substantially harsher than the conditions they protested against in the 60s. Indeed, it was of course the global elite itself – in the form of entertainers such as Richard Curtis and Bono – which organized the Live 8 event. To reclaim a real political agency means first of all accepting our insertion at the level of desire in the remorseless meat-grinder of Capital. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘hoarding Father’ figure recalls the shadow-king/tyrant imagery in Freud and Lacan, and the essay’s own framing of decadence and desire. — connects to: The protest movement itself depends on a hoarding-Father figure it posits — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; The global elite dodged identification with the hoarding Father figure — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33

Related

• The protest movement itself depends on a hoarding-Father figure it posits (similarity 0.92)
• The global elite dodged identification with the hoarding Father figure (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• The protest movement itself depends on a hoarding-Father figure it posits #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33
• The global elite dodged identification with the hoarding Father figure #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33