140 Quotes by Mark Fisher

Capital follows you when you dream.

the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

El poder ha completado el espectáculo al hacerlo interactivo; pero, al hacer esto, ha terminado con el espectáculo como tal, ha inaugurado un sistema nuevo, un sistema completamente inclusivo, que obsolesce toda noción de alienación (y, por consiguiente, toda su crítica).

The fantasy being that western consumerism, far from being intrinsically implicated in systemic global inequalities, could itself solve them. All we have to do is buy the right products.

As any numbers of radical theorists from Brecht through to Foucault and Badiou have maintained, emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.

To reclaim a real political agency means first of all accepting our insertion at the level of desire in the remorseless meat-grinder of Capital. What is being disavowed in the abjection of evil and ignorance onto fantasmatic Others is our own complicity in planetary networks of oppression. What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation.

Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination.

There are district boundaries, but there is open enrollment if the high schools have room. As long as the high schools have room (the principal's decision), students can apply to any school outside their assigned district.

Moody and I are friends and decided to transcribe this book so others could use it.