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He didn’t pass away. He killed himself. Also. His ideas were dated by the 1990s. Professor Rick Roderick and philosopher Terence McKenna both talked about everything Mark did, and beyond. McKenna was saying the past ideologies were dead in the 1990s. We’re beyond the event horizon at this point.

I'm from the future, turns out it's still here 😢

Did you mix up signified and signifier? Surely it's like meaner and meant, the image, word, sound, or symbol, and the idea it conveys.

beautiful, amazing.

Really helpful! Thank you for this!

Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of his major work but the automobile had not yet been invented. What does depreciation have to do with planned obsolescence in a consumer economy? Where is the data on the annual depreciation of automobiles since Sputnik?

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Has the definition of madness changed? It doesn't seem that way, it's the societal treatment of madness that has changed, ie; the remedies.

Acid Communism sounds a little like Evolution Revolution where you have Capitalism evolve out of itself and becomes something new. It requires people to act like viruses inside the system while also trying to change the environment outside it to force Capitalism to change. What hat new change is is uncertain and we much rather stay with the stuffing that we know than deal with something we can even see. You can't see yourself evolve, only the changes it leaves behind as evidence that it happened. In my eyes, evolution is the only way to "beat" capitalism with the least amount of casualties. Kinda makes you think if there's more to banning evolution theory in schools than just religion, huh?

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Definitely one of the most important thinkers. Mark Fisher has been putting into words what I felt since many years - that we have stumbled into the 21st century backwards. However, Capitalist Realism is a crummy title for a book. It will take many people quite some time to realise he is actualing crticising what he seems to praise at first glance. Once you get it, the concept is fine. Bad title, though, worse than Acid Communism, which is weird enough to tickle your imagination.

Excellent work!

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

As an autistic person who remembers being 15, I can tell you now that this is nowhere near the whole story. What it seems like to me is the average typical mind explaining the exact thing divergent minds struggle with as the only way society and culture work......... When I can very readily tell you that whatever this phenomenon is that he describes, it's not everyone's. The Heidegger v Hegel debate ... for an autistic person, Hegelian dialectics is all that exist. I am not privileged to the automatic social network typical people seem to have connection to.

Every time I try to dig into postmodernism more deeply, I always get stopped on page one and remember... "How can different people with their own individual perspectives and internal lives ever communicate with one another if meta-narratives are not being used in culture to create the language they use to denounce modernism with?" And then I feel better about it being a plot to destroy the human experiment.

I’m re reading mark fisher and watching his lectures. Such a brilliant mind and animated and authentic unique thinker. Such a sad loss but it’s great his ideas are being kept alive they are more relevant now than ever. One of the problems we have today is that the idea of a utopia has been thoroughly discredited so it has also had an impact on political hope which affects us in the present so we can only look to the past and revive tired old ideas or splinter into a thousand pieces through ever fracturing identity politics. We need to bring back the idea of utopia but as David graeber (another great thinker) says we need many different utopias not just one on what our ideal society might look like. RIP those great minds hopefully the next generation will carry the torch into the future.

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100 percent correct late stage capitalism is the dull grey beige dystopia of puritianical plutocrats and middle class cancel culture. Let it rot. The Chinese phrase “let it rot” (摆烂, bǎi làn) is a recent addition to the country’s lexicon, emerging in 2022. It means “to actively embrace a deteriorating situation, rather than trying to turn it around” or “to accept and surrender to a declining or unfixable situation.”

Your name is what? Riskus? What kind of name is that? Lol. Good video though!

Thanks for your great summorization

Thank you, i learned a lot

Love this book and Mark. The impotency felt as a young person results in a manifestation of struggles in my desire to have children. If there is no better than this system then I’d rather opt out. Many subconsciously want kids but delay as again many are priced out of housing and economic growth.

Its like human history started in 1850 or approximately thereabouts for leftists. Communism/capitalism have the same end goal; the end of man as cultural-historic being. This includes any taint of spirituality. They have no ideas about the occult, the mysteries, esotericism and in general all the weird anomalous stuff out there. Fisher is painted into a corner by refusing to question basic facts about "science". No wonder he was miserable af. He didn't go far enough in his questioning of the reality that was presented to him. Rave music? Yea its fun but what about the idea its main purpose back in the 90s was to distract people and zonk them out on drugs? He was naive. He was a perfect capitalist realist.

Morale of this story is don´t write an insanely thick book and let it be about a guy who does not care for anybody but himself and his non sense and let him and his cronies go after another guy who owns a cool aircraft which is the fastest aircraft in the world, just because its cool and then call it Atlas Shrugged, the Fountainhead or some other ridiculous name. Here is why: 1, its about a boring guy, 2, its about everybody´s life being boring, 3, it has a fast aircraft which just makes things even more boring, because its a hell of a thick Benny Hinn chase going after that aircraft in particular in that book lol. Thanks for this video!! Excellent analysis and summation!! Best wishes to you from Iceland!!

I can finally begin understanding Hauntology! Thank you very so much!!!

I love this video it really broke it down super well. Thanks

Thank you so much for the video; your knowledge is greatly appreciated and has been incredibly helpful!

I never heard of Fisher. I'm buying his books

Things will change when we realize we have to pay for the system we have because, as it is organized, bill aren't due anytime soon. If the highest official at the Fed says that money is a mousse click moving between accounting tables, then why need we worry? No one sees money. And that's the matrix in fact; it's not code, it's actually the financial system.

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Thank you!! This video was very useful.

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Mark fisher is one of the greatest 21st century philosophers thus far.

bah, what's the freakin' point of a so-called leftist that sounds lkke ron desantis? that goes for zizek too

Are we sure after some time has passed now that C19 was not a Simulation? Lots of videos, lots of news but in real life nothing seemed to change but the mask wearing.

You are such a great teacher. This was so useful. Thank you!

As a mathematician, I find myself intrigued by the inherent ambiguity of language-a theme central to Jacques Derrida's lectures and work. In mathematics, our 'primitives' or foundational concepts are defined by their properties and dynamics, forming a language of precision and unambiguous communication. Yet, in the human linguistic sphere, as Derrida often explored, words or 'primitives' are more fluid, shaped by sensory input and complex associations. Take, for instance, the multifaceted nature of simple words like 'speech' or 'address.' 'Speech' can refer to the act of talking or a formal oration, and 'address' might mean a formal speech or a physical location. This polysemy, the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase, is absent in the mathematical lexicon, where each term has a clearly delineated boundary. Derrida's deconstructionist approach sheds light on this ambiguity. He emphasized how words are not merely vessels for pre-existing meanings but are active participants in meaning creation, constantly in flux. This is evident when considering a word like 'dog.' In its basic form, it refers to an animal, a meaning established through direct association. However, the moment it's used metaphorically-say, to describe an unfaithful person-the word's meaning shifts, embodying the very essence of linguistic ambiguity that Derrida examined. What captivates me about philosophy is its rigorous examination of the very essence of ambiguous language. Philosophers venture beyond merely acknowledging the existence of multiple definitions; they probe deeply into the implications of this ambiguity. In doing so, they unravel the intricacies and complexities of human communication. Their approach is not just about facing the proverbial 'devil in the details' but engaging with it, dissecting and understanding each nuanced aspect. This thorough exploration is what I find most compelling.

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I lived through this period. Fukuyama was so obviously sucking up to Bush, Gingrich, Limbaugh etc. In order to get paid. REally stupid and vulgar. Stockman said this was all total bullshit in 1981. He was right.

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You'd call that intellectual snubbery humor.

Interesting. Yeah, I agree with most of this, except for the solution. It's plain weird and it's about... art?! I see nothing bad about communism 2.0, either. And by communism I mean, among other things, a kind of system where prices are regulated to eliminate any inflation, just like the USSR used to do (and with great success). Imo it's the only way to disempower capitalists and their parasitism on the rest of society. Inflation is their major tool of power. For example, when the government raises pensions, businessmen raise prices, I've seen that plenty and I've talked to a few (Question: Why is this cake so much more expensive since today? Answer: The pensions just got raised!) This tool creates a vicious circle of perpetual poverty for the majority, whereas the businessmen thrive. And today we can see how amidst of the global economical crisis the businesses thrive more than ever by using the crisis as an excuse to raise their prices extremely high. In my country a few investigations into that has happened already, it was found that there was no sufficient reason for the huge price raise, and businesses were forced to drop the exorbitant prices, for example, for the chicken. However there are a lot more overpriced products, you can't investigate them all. If anything, the crisis just shows how capitalism really works. Only the naive can still believe that prices have ever been set in a fair way by the magical hand of the market.

That was fun ;) I agree with your rankings, except for Hume. Baudrillard also has a special place in my heart, he's so accessible in comparison to the likes of Derrida, but your ranking of him is probably fair.

Great video about a great author. In France, the philosopher Jean-Claude Michéa is going further on the political aspect. He describes right and left as 2 entangled sides of liberalism : none of them threaten capitalism. Left liberalism only "fights" for minorities and these fights never threatem capitalism. They don't care about the working class. Left has nothing to do with socialism. And thus, here, since the 80s, working class has moved to reactionary populists like Le Pen or Zemmour.

well explained ❤