/lit/ - Literature

>>17084201
>accfag thread
Into the trash it goes.

>>17084201
>a fantacism of productivism in which nothing much is actually produced,an economy made out of hot air
is he describing his blogging career?

>>17084201
>an economy made out of hot air and bland delirium.

bold words for a professional writer.

>>17084220
>>17084223
Didn't he work in education? I don't think he ever just wrote full time.

>>17084220
lmao

Capitalist Realism is a much better critique of capitalism and does it in a much shorter page count than this dreck.
>dude, this incredibly obscure British artist that only 3 people have listened to conveys the EXACT same thoughts I have!

>>17084201
Unironically based. Just a shame that the world will end, before late late late late captialism does. There's no point in reading theory outside of larping and cope.

>>17084237
>Capitalist Realism
>don't read this trash read THIS trash

>>17084201
Spooked. If the current capitalist system benefits me, I will promote it as it promotes myself. Eventually, it may run into conflict with me, so I have plans just in case

>>17084208
Mark wasn't an accfag, just a doomer socialist.

>>17084227
I believe he was a professor but his early and regular blogging career is what made him a household name. I could be mistaken though I haven't read more than a few film analysees by him

>>17084270
>an accfag
>AN ACCFAG!

>>17084254
It's not trash. If anything he touches on the idea that it's not just the economic deprivation that makes neoliberal capitalism suck, but rather that it also hollows out the family, culture, religion, art, community, etc. which is a critical element that is missing from the typical Marxism critique that only focuses on material conditions.

>>17084257
>I will try to domesticate this wild bear
>as long as the bear is of benefit to me, I will keep it close at hand
>if it becomes inconvenient to me, I have plans
Kek

>>17084287
>t. never read marx

>>17084303
Capitalism isn't a bear. It is merely an idea.

>>17084257
>>17084303
btfo

>>17084227
>Didn't he work in education? I don't think he ever just wrote full time.
So he has a fake job like half of the population under Neoliberalism?

>>17084383
Kapital is a force. Think that you can somehow control it is like thinking you can tame a wild beast and that it won't maul you the first chance it gets.

>>17084464
Why is China able to control "Kapital"?

>>17084257
>>17084257
The climate has changed and will only get worse.
The air you breathe is polluted, as is the water you drink.
Monsanto has wrecked your neurotransmitters and endocrine system.
Social atomization means you’ll never live in community like you’re evolved to.
Your ability to focus and think has likely been decayed by the internet and the ethos of constant entertainment.
Your biggest window into the world for most of your life has likely been commercial art, leaving you bereft of actual meaning.
The logic of Capitalism has eroded your humanity. And you’re so deep in it you can’t even see it.

>>17084512
China does not control its capital
It's very good at looking like it does though
>>17084515
>Commercial art
Art has always been commercial? What is this modern delusion that art somehow exists in a vacuum from the economy. Artists have needed to eat since I dunno the birth of art.

>>17084237
Ghosts of my life was good only for its thesis on hauntology and past futures. The rest of the book was about jungle music.

Pic related is a book that extensively covers the exact idea that OP's quote talked about. I just finished it recently. Pretty great read.

>>17084220
his blogging career is more successful than most desu. Afterall he managed to get published with his writings and receive lots of critical acclaim from other political theorists/philosophers. This board can only dream of being so accomplished with their writings
>>17084279
he was a professor at goldsmith in london I believe

>>17084201
>Capital demands that we always look busy, even if there’s no work to do
No it doesn't. Under optimal capital markets nobody would be being paid at all unless they were actually producing something.
Societal misapplication of capitalism =! Capitalism

>>17084956
Read
>>17084842

>>17084877
>appeal to Beliebers

>>17084201
capitalism is one of the biggest spooks in history
every leftist failure happens because they're fighting a spook

>>17084956
>some capitalist did an oopsie =/ capitalism
why are you people so fucking retarded. read a book