Post Capitalist Desire, Melancholy, Psychedelia and Mark Fisher with Matt Colquhoun

Post Capitalist Desire, Melancholy, Psychedelia and Mark Fisher with Matt Colquhoun

>"Mark Fisher passed away four years ago today. In bleak times, his writing showed a new generation that another world was possible – and paved the way for socialist revival."

>"Mark Fisher passed away four years ago today. In bleak times, his writing showed a new generation that another world was possible – and paved the way for socialist revival."

The disease of racism continues to cause suffering and misery across the globe. The eruption of the Black Lives Matter protests this year has exposed the extent to which systematic racism continues to oppress and demonise black and minority _...Read More_

The disease of racism continues to cause suffering and misery across the globe. The eruption of the Black Lives Matter protests this year has exposed the extent to which systematic racism continues to oppress and demonise black and minority _...Read More_

>"Covid and climate change aren’t aberrations: they are aspects of the system’s permanent global crisis." “The end is in sight. Effectively deployed testing may be able to ameliorate social distancing until the vaccines arrive …To have _...Read More_

>"Covid and climate change aren’t aberrations: they are aspects of the system’s permanent global crisis." “The end is in sight. Effectively deployed testing may be able to ameliorate social distancing until the vaccines arrive …To have _...Read More_

In a Democracy Now! special, we revisit our June 2020 interview with the legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis about the uprising against police brutality and racism launched in May after the police killing of George Floyd in _...Read More_

In a Democracy Now! special, we revisit our June 2020 interview with the legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis about the uprising against police brutality and racism launched in May after the police killing of George Floyd in _...Read More_

>"Eulogies for the creative class are premature. Art workers can organize—and survive."

>"Eulogies for the creative class are premature. Art workers can organize—and survive."

A new wave of liberal anti-racists, whose works currently dominate sales charts, reading lists, academic settings, and even the cinema, take the opposite approach. Although some differences exist among them, most theorize current racial _...Read More_

A new wave of liberal anti-racists, whose works currently dominate sales charts, reading lists, academic settings, and even the cinema, take the opposite approach. Although some differences exist among them, most theorize current racial _...Read More_

[https://relevant.community/culture/post/5ffcd8dd1e3b8800455d9a4f](https://relevant.community/culture/post/5ffcd8dd1e3b8800455d9a4f)

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Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

There is simply no way you can trust a Silicon Valley firm means something egalitarian when they speak about unlocking “‘maximum human flourishing on a global scale.’” “For Capital, the mind is a holy grail.” The technocapitalist tones _...Read More_

There is simply no way you can trust a Silicon Valley firm means something egalitarian when they speak about unlocking “‘maximum human flourishing on a global scale.’” “For Capital, the mind is a holy grail.” The technocapitalist tones _...Read More_

Apologists for capitalism like to point to its historically progressive aspects, like its supposed use of “free labor” rather than older forms of labor compulsion. _...Read More_

Apologists for capitalism like to point to its historically progressive aspects, like its supposed use of “free labor” rather than older forms of labor compulsion. _...Read More_

"Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination"

"Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination"

In contrast to capitalism, where the owners of capital have the most power, and statism, where state officials have the most power, socialism is an economic system where “the investment process and production are controlled through _...Read More_

In contrast to capitalism, where the owners of capital have the most power, and statism, where state officials have the most power, socialism is an economic system where “the investment process and production are controlled through _...Read More_

>"Rarely does one hear about upward redistribution, whereby a few cents taken from everyone make a few individuals very rich indeed. Worse, the 2020 US election all but ensures that this 'trickle-up' dynamic will continue.American _...Read More_

>"Rarely does one hear about upward redistribution, whereby a few cents taken from everyone make a few individuals very rich indeed. Worse, the 2020 US election all but ensures that this 'trickle-up' dynamic will continue.American _...Read More_