Post-Capitalist Desire

Matthew Lowery
9 min readDec 1, 2019

Out of all the many authors whose books and papers I have read, Mark Fisher’s have long held a place close to my heart. His book Capitalist Realism has had a profound effect on the way I see the world, and I’m certainly not alone in that. However, in this post I want to use this post to draw attention to a piece he wrote called ‘Post-Capitalist Desire’ and to draw a few comparisons with other pieces of literature I’ve been interested in recently in…

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Matthew Lowery

PhD student. Interests in critical theory, radical democracy, new materialism, ideology, science fiction, and extreme metal.