Mark Fisher Quotes

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services. ...Everything has its price.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I used to think that capitalism was human nature. Now I know that it is culture.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a non-capitalistic environment.

Capitalism will kill competition.

A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values sweep into every aspect of human endeavor. It is a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

We must expect for a long time yet to see capitalists still striving to obtain the highest possible profits. But observe, that the passion for wealth is certainly in some senses new. It grew up very rapidly at the beginning of the present century; it was not so strong in the last century, when men were much more content to lead a quiet easy life of leisure. The change has really influenced the relations between men; but in the future it is quite possible that the scramble for wealth may grow less intense, and a change in the opposite direction take place.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.

Much of reality TV has been like the worst nightmares of Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard come true, its seductive allure turning us into gossips in the global village.

Capitalism can never pursue deterritorialization to the absolute. What deterritorialization there is within capitalism is always balanced by a compensatory lockdown onto nation, culture, and race. Hence the 'Steampunk' quality of capitalism, where the most ancient traditions can co-exist with the ultramodern.

People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations.

Affective exploitation is crucial to late capitalism.

We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.

I don't have anything against corporate America. I mean, I guess there's something about living in a capitalist society that can get kind of terrifying at times.

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.