![]() ![]() ![]() Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin and Kafka), work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience, is anything but realistic and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged.ÃÂ It is a sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free market neo-liberalism are givens rather than constructions. The book analyses the development and principal features of thisÃÂ capitalist realismÃÂ as a lived ideological framework. ![]() After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the onlyÃÂ realisticÃÂ political-economic system – a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. ![]()
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