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Philosophize This! · July 21, 2024 · 35m
Episode #203 — Why the Future Is Being Slowly Cancelled (Mark Fisher)
Fisher's concept of 'the slow cancellation of the future.' Culture no longer produces genuinely new forms — just recombinations of the past. The 21st century sounds, looks, and feels like a remix of the 20th.
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Canon
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Fisher via West: late capitalism replaces authentic selfhood with consumer identity. Your 'true self' is expressed through purchases, brand affiliations, and lifestyle choices — all pre-packaged by the market.
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West: Fisher used biographies and history to break through capitalist realism. By studying thinkers who imagined radically different futures (Marcuse, Deleuze, the Situationists), he found cognitive resources for thinking beyond the present.
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