Books like Capitalist Realism
Loved Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher? Here are 10 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
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- 1Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric JamesonIt is the main source for Fisher's ideas about how culture and economics shape each other under late capitalism.
- 2The Sublime Object of Ideology
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj ŽižekIt explores how ideology works as a lived structure rather than a set of explicit beliefs, a central theme in Fisher's book.
- 3Specters of Marx
Specters of Marx
Jacques DerridaFisher draws on its ideas about haunting and the persistence of unrealised futures in his wider critical work.
- 4The Shock Doctrine
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi KleinIt traces how free-market policies were imposed after crises, which helps explain the sense of inevitability Fisher describes.
- 5Debt
Debt
David GraeberIt questions the assumed natural basis of market economics by tracing how money and debt have been understood across history.
- 6Undoing the Demos
Undoing the Demos
Wendy BrownIt examines how neoliberal reasoning reshapes democratic life and public values, a concern that runs through Fisher's account.
- 7The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le GuinIt is a novel about an anarchist society set against a capitalist world, and Fisher uses Le Guin to think about imagining alternatives.
- 8The Precariat
The Precariat
Guy StandingIt describes the insecure work and lack of stability that Fisher links to the experience of work under neoliberalism.
- 9The Burnout Society
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul HanIt analyses the exhaustion and self-exploitation of achievement-driven societies, close to Fisher's account of depression as a political condition.
- 10Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas PikettyIt gives an empirical account of inequality and capital returns that supports the critique of neoliberal economics Fisher makes in more cultural terms.
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