James Hogg’s Reviews > The New Spirit of Capitalism > Status Update

Good thing I went to the ER today :)

On de-unionization, evaporation of class consciousness, and the advent of neoliberalism + capitalist realism: "We have in fact witnessed a transformation in social debate: structured around the theme of inequalities up until the end of the 1970s, it has gradually shifted to exclusion. Yet whereas the first approach leaves room for antagonism between social groups, the second establishes the idea of a broad consensus

Understanding precarity and market Stalinism:
The novel: The New spirit of capitalism
The motion picture: Utopia of Rules
The picture book: capitalist realism: is there no alternative?

Capital is such a sneaky shit it co-opted the 'artistic critique' of '68 and yippie rebellion into a NEW SPIRIT, displacing the collapsing 'protestant ethic' and ushering in our new, 'agile', hellscape.

So dense