Without afterlife belief time is finite yet late capitalism treats it as infinite.

Evidence

Campagna’s call for a “radial atheism” is based on the recognition that the precariousness that cannot be eliminated is that of life and the body. If there is no afterlife, then our time is finite. Curiously, however, we subjects of late capitalism act as if there is infinite time to waste on work. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1629

Categorization

• QUESTION: Interesting inversion worth chasing: secular modernity should have made temporality sacred (since finite), yet capitalism treats work-time as if endless. Where is the account of how this inversion came about?
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s naturalness and eternity are a hoax — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 26; Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420; A life bound only to wealth production and accumulation is small and unrealized — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 382

Broader Connections

• Capitalism’s naturalness and eternity are a hoax #corroborates (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 26
• A life bound only to wealth production and accumulation is small and unrealized #expands (0.74) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 382
• Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420