Mitchel

“Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“The disarticulation of class from race, gender and sexuality has in fact been central to the success of the neoliberal project”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

“The solemn stillness of the morning hour lay over the pavement; above in the window panes the early gold of the young sun glistened, and high above swam little roseate clouds which then dissolved into the grey city sky. At that time, as a child, I firmly believed that "life", "real" life, was somewhere far away, beyond the roofs. Since then I have been travelling after it. But it is still hidden away behind the roofs somewhere...”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men