id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt mronline-org-9466 MR Online | Questioning Capitalist Realism: An Interview with Mark Fisher .html text/html 4491 236 60 Capitalist Realism is in your account extremely evident in education, which is a zone which is at once suffering immense restructuring from the introduction of pseudo-markets and the intense pressures of constant audit and competition; it is also a space which offers one of the last forms of refuge from the blunter stupidities of a traumatised and simplistically reduced range of opportunities and forms of life within contemporary capitalism, and as such is expected to absorb an immense amount of problems in society. Neoliberal ideology likes us to believe that bureaucracy has decreased under it, but the reality is that it has simply changed form, and the average teacher or lecturer is doing much more bureaucracy than ever before — and this is not 'necessary' bureaucracy, or bureaucracy that 'improves performance'; on the contrary, as we all know, it is a purely empty activity, a dead ritual that is at best useless, at worst actually counter-productive. ./cache/mronline-org-9466.html ./txt/mronline-org-9466.txt