The last twenty-five years ran on controlled desublimation rather than open repression

Evidence

As we awake from the dreary dream of entryism, we can start to see that what kept us slumbering in the last twenty-five years was indeed a programme of controlled, if not quite repressive, desublimation. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 983

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on ch8 and the book’s running thesis of capitalist realism and culture industry manipulation. — connects to: Subordinating theory to praxis historically reinforced renewed repression.; True sublimation preserves awareness of repression and the need for liberation. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 335; Demands to subordinate theory to praxis can turn resistance into repression — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 284 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Liberties granted within a repressive society can themselves serve repression #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2582
• True sublimation preserves awareness of repression and the need for liberation. #qualifies (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 335
• Demands to subordinate theory to praxis can turn resistance into repression #expands (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 284
• Ascetic restraint now resists profit-economy madness more than hedonism resisted liberal repression #complicates (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 111
• Open repression in broadcasting appears only when routine containment mechanisms fail #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 860
• Subordinating theory to praxis historically reinforced renewed repression. #expands (0.72)
• Dismantling prohibitions eliminates the psychic repression that generated Freudian symptoms #complicates (0.72) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 109