"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." But why? And what if we could imagine something else? I talk with Iggy Perillo about Mark Fisher's brilliant book.
Yeah, that's definitely not anywhere in the book! And now I will be thinking about this all day! But the first thing that comes to mind is Fisher's chapter on capitalist realism as "dreamwork" and "memory disorder." Like any aspect of colonialism/imperialism, capitalist realism is an active project of forgetting and unseeing. The alternatives to capitalist organization have been with indigenous cultures for thousands of years. Like you say in your book, it's epistemicide. How can we imagine a different way forward if we've destroyed the knowledge that the way forward already exists?
Maybe not completely destroyed all of it. Definitely buried deep most of it... The unearthing IS happening! May it continue and all that wisdom be reseeded!
I am in the middle of reading this book for the first time! Thank you for always reading my mind. LOL.
Oh wow!!! What timing! I would LOVE to know what you think when you're through it.
Definitely will. Already (always) I want the analysis that integrates the indigenous/mystical/cosmic aspect of it all. (Don't say that's mine to do.)
Yeah, that's definitely not anywhere in the book! And now I will be thinking about this all day! But the first thing that comes to mind is Fisher's chapter on capitalist realism as "dreamwork" and "memory disorder." Like any aspect of colonialism/imperialism, capitalist realism is an active project of forgetting and unseeing. The alternatives to capitalist organization have been with indigenous cultures for thousands of years. Like you say in your book, it's epistemicide. How can we imagine a different way forward if we've destroyed the knowledge that the way forward already exists?
Maybe not completely destroyed all of it. Definitely buried deep most of it... The unearthing IS happening! May it continue and all that wisdom be reseeded!
Hear hear! Thanks for getting my brain going this morning!!