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In the 1960s and 1970s, capitalism had to face the problem of how to contain and absorb energies from outside. It now, in fact, has the opposite problem; having all-too successfully incorporated externality, how can it function without an outside it can colonize and appropriate?
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
The labeling process could be understood as a form of reification, and, as Adorno put it in a letter to Benjamin, “all reification is a forgetting; objects become purely thing-like the moment they are retained for us without the continued presence of their other aspects, when something of them has been forgotten.”
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
We are told that the way things are is the only way they can be, because every other model has supposedly already been tried, and all have failed. But these ideas about different ways of being and thinking and living did not all fail; rather, many of them fell, crushed by political violence and racial terror.
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