Web obsession has buttressed capitalist realism rather than undermined it

Evidence

In sum, the obsession with the web, its monopolisation of any idea of the new, has served capitalist realism rather than undermined it. Which does not mean, naturally, that we should abandon the web, only that we should find out how to develop a more instrumental relationship with it. Put simply, we should use it — as a means of dissemination, communication and distribution — but not live inside it. The problem is that this goes against the tendencies of handhelds. We all recognise the by now clichéd image of a train carriage full of people pecking at their tiny screens, but have we really registered how miserable this really is, and how much it suits capital for these pockets of socialisation to be closed down? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1883

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Near-aphoristic counsel: use the web as means of dissemination but don’t live inside it — treat it instrumentally.
• XREF: Echoes Jodi Dean’s communicative capitalism critique and Bifo’s semio-capitalism which Fisher cites; connects to themes in Naomi Klein’s No Logo / Douglas Rushkoff on screen dependence. — connects to: Internet self-representation conceals a capitalist infrastructure producing the self as commodity; Loathed-but-complied systems typify capitalist realism; Anti-capitalist messages on screen can end up reinforcing capitalist realism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2223 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Corporate anti-capitalist satire reinforces rather than undermines capitalist realism #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 29
• Anti-capitalist messages on screen can end up reinforcing capitalist realism #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2223
• Internet self-representation conceals a capitalist infrastructure producing the self as commodity #expands (0.85)
• The digital economy functions as legitimating hegemonic ideology for capitalism #corroborates (0.85) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 16
• The internet functions as a factory producing the self as commodity #expands (0.83) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 18
• Web 2.0 adopted DIY individualism while abandoning zine culture’s anti-capitalist and feminist critique #exemplifies (0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 98
• Loathed-but-complied systems typify capitalist realism #exemplifies (0.80)
• Web 2.0 ideology fuses 1960s counterculture with pro-capitalist techno-determinism #exemplifies (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 41
• Critics of internet utopianism can overcorrect and dismiss legitimate net activism #complicates (0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 787