Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth

by Samuel Alexander and Samuel Alexander

'Capitalist realism' implies that, ever since the fall of Soviet communism in 1989, capitalism has been the only realistic system of production and distribution. Everything else is generally dismissed as 'utopianism' or just na ve dreaming. This perspective points to a worrying failure of imagination, suggesting that it is now easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

But here is the paradox of capitalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0648840530
• ISBN13: 9780648840534
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Simplicity Institute
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"