Activité sur Le Réalisme capitaliste

Encore aligner un astre – un de ces noms qui revient souvent dans les nébuleuses que je fréquente, ou auquel je l'associerai aussi facilement – Burial, l'esthétique vaporwave (notamment Sam Kidel et son expérience avec les call centers), The Caretaker dans les plus évidentes ; mais aussi quelques déclarations qui me ramènent à David Graeber, tout ce qui touche à la poursuite d'une bureaucratie toute aussi pénible mais sous d'autres formes accompagnant le néolibéralisme / la décentralisation du c...

"how long can a culture persist without the new ? What happens if the young are no longer capable of producing surprises ? […] No cultural object can retain its power when there are no longer new eyes to see it. […] The power of capitalist realism derives in part from the way that capitalism subsumes and consumes all of previous history : one effect of its 'system of equivalence' which can assign all cultural objects, wheter they are religious iconography, pornography, or Das Kapital, a monetary...

"Needless to say, what counts as 'realistic', what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological position can never be really successful until it is naturalized, and it canot be naturalized while it is still thought of as a value rather than a fact. […] Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a 'business ontology' in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare a...