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Musk’s Nazi salute is the logical endpoint of postmodern conservatism’s discursive logics.
The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute
Matthew Ellis
Mental health, in fact, is a paradigm case of how capitalist realism operates. Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect).
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
The recent upsurge in militancy in the UK, particularly amongst the young, suggests that the privatisation of stress is breaking down: in place of a medicated individual depression, we are now seeing explosions of public anger. Here, and in the largely untapped but massively widespread discontent with the managerialist regulation of work, lie some of the materials out of which a new leftist modernism can be built. Only this leftist modernism is capable of constructing a public sphere which can cure the numerous pathologies with which communicative capitalism afflicts us.
“The Privatisation of Stress”, by Mark Fisher from Soundings magazine
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