Certainly, few could be as devastating as Fisher in making resonant and felt the “political phenomenology of late capitalism,” in which we experience “a system that is unresponsive, impersonal, centreless, abstract and fragmentary.” 1 There is, however, another “substance” at work in the book, which is those desires, experiences and lived moments that call to another collective order not oriented to value. The substance of the book is not simply the substance of capitalist realism.
That is why I want to return to the “substance” of the book, but in a particular fashion. The success of the title is at the expense of the book. Capitalist Realism, the book, has, in ten years, become a phrase: “what Mark Fisher calls ‘capitalist realism’” or ‘as Mark Fisher has described, “capitalist realism.”’ Fisher’s diagnosis is accepted but the risk is that the substance of Capitalist Realism the book is uncannily absent.
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