Structural stability, not risk-taking markets, generates cultural innovation.

Evidence

It is another irony that capitalism’s ‘society of risk’ is much less likely to take this kind of risk than was the supposedly stodgy, centralized culture of the postwar social consensus. It was the public service-oriented BBC and Channel 4 that perplexed and delighted me with the likes of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, Pinter plays and Tarkovsky seasons; it was this BBC that also funded the popular avant gardism of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which embedded sonic experimentalism into everyday life. Such innovations are unthinkable now that the public has been displaced by the consumer. The effect of permanent structural instability, the ‘cancellation of the long term’, is invariably stagnation and conservatism, not innovation. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 159

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the ‘Grafting & Growth’ argument about public/commons spaces enabling long-term investment against market-driven short-termism.
• XREF: connects to: Fast-moving cultures depend on stable cultural anchors to absorb innovation — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 288; Stable regimes sustain strong flexible repertoires shaped jointly by culture and structure — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 273; Innovation requires stability, so welfare-state dismantling stultified culture. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1635

Related

• Innovation requires stability, so welfare-state dismantling stultified culture. (similarity 0.84)
• Innovation requires stability that neoliberalism’s dismantled social democracy provided (similarity 0.82)
• Risk-loving capitalism is culturally more conservative than centralized state institutions. (similarity 0.82)
• Fast-moving cultures depend on stable cultural anchors to absorb innovation (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Fast-moving cultures depend on stable cultural anchors to absorb innovation #corroborates (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 288
• Stable regimes sustain strong flexible repertoires shaped jointly by culture and structure #corroborates (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 273
• Innovation requires stability, so welfare-state dismantling stultified culture. #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1635