Five Glimpses of the Abstract Parasite: On the Libidinal Dynamics of Really Existing Capitalism (Fisher's Ghosts, part 3)

I feel like each individual step in this intellectual journey is uncontroversial, but as soon as you lay it all out for people and take it to the logical conclusion, the spittle begins to fly. The question, when you get down to it, is why are people invested in a system that does very little but generate joy for an ever-shrinking slice of the population and misery for the vast majority?

Something To Do On the Way To the Grave: Fisher's "Depressive Hedonia" and Getting Some Hobbies (Fisher's Ghosts, part 2)

Put simply: it’s not a job or a side hustle per se, and you have to actually do something.

The Minotaur in the Labyrinthine Office: on Bureaucracy (Fisher's Ghosts, part 1)

On Page 20 of Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher wrote “With the triumph of neoliberalism, bureaucracy was supposed to have been made obsolete; a relic of an unlamented Stalinist past. Yet this is at odds with the experiences of most people working and living in late capitalism, for whom bureaucracy remains very much a part of everyday life. Instead of disappearing, bureaucracy has changed its form; and this new, decentralized form has allowed it to proliferate.” What can be done?