Hi – can you give me a summary of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism please?

So I turned to ChatGPT to provide a summary and then relate Fisher’s ideas to the subject of urban development and by extension, I suppose we can see how this relates (or not) to Barking Riverside.

I found myself this afternoon thinking about Mark Fisher’s highly influential book, Capitalist Realism, which I confess I haven’t read but my son has, and talked about it a lot. But I hadn’t done an adequate amount of research on this complex development to be able to inform any kind of critique.Ĭapitalist Realism and Urban development via ChatGPT This is a fair point and particularly as I approach the self-publication of my book ‘Welcome to New London’ that does indeed take in the political dimensions of some new developments in London. “love you John and have for years, but I would have liked you to do more of a critique of the politics of this kind of development I know you get this stuff – not sure why you avoided it” However, one comment on YouTube caught my attention this morning: I’ll confess I’d only done a cursory browse of the developer’s website and saw my visit as merely to observe and document, not to critique or unpick the underlying economics and what this might say about the ongoing reshaping of London. I’d wrongly assumed that the project was largely complete and had only previously skirted around the fringes, firstly in 2017 and then last October at the end of my walk along the Gores Brook. I finally returned to document the development at Barking Riverside a couple of Sundays ago, late in the afternoon. Barking Riverside – a place like no other

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher