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Have you read anything by Mark Fisher? He spoke about capitalism absorbing all resistance which makes it almost impossible to ever escape from. Which is what yo
by spacemadness 1y ago
Have you read anything by Mark Fisher? He spoke about capitalism absorbing all resistance which makes it almost impossible to ever escape from. Which is what you’re saying I think. Resistance becomes the next market and works through the same economic systems it’s attempting to resist.
- willturman 1y agoDavid Foster Wallace made a similar argument about Television being able to absorb, re-contextualize, and subsequently market any effort opposed to it as a cause of malignant addiction and abdication of societal responsibilities in his essay E. Unibus Pluram. Today you can probably substitute television for YouTube, TikTok, etc, but the argument still holds up, perhaps better than ever.
- _9ptr 1y agoIt's sad he can't witness the death of television