Publisher Description
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Since the events of 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system — a situation that the banking crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded.
This book analyses the development and principal features of this "capitalist realism" as a lived ideological framework. 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 and is anything but realistic, and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged.
A sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free-market neoliberalism are givens rather than constructions, Capitalist Realism is one of the most important political books of the last decade.
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About Russell Brand
Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, activist, and author of several bestselling books, including New York Times bestsellers. He has had a number of major film roles, including parts in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek. He has won sevefal awards, including Time Out’s Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, Best TV Performer at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, and Most Stylish Man at GQ’s Men of the Year Awards. In 2012, he was selected by the Dalai Lama to host the Buddhist leader’s youth event in Manchester, England. With funds from his profits from Revolution, he opened a nonprofit coffee house in London run as a social enterprise by former drug addicts in abstinence-based recovery programs.