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Problems (7): PR-00001–PR-00007 — Meaning Crisis, Illegitimate Domination, Performance Society Exhaustion, Fascization, Epistemic Power Concentration, Platform Feudalism, Knowledge Isolation Models (5): Han, Fisher, Foucault, Vervaeke, Graeber/Anarchism Values (6): Epistemic Sovereignty, Authority Requires Justification, Exhaustion Is Structural, Mutual Aid Over Market, Digital Autonomy Is Political, Deep Reflection As Practice Arguments (3): Platform Feudalism → Democracy, PKM as Epistemic Strategy, Algorithmic Rationality Erodes Autonomy Organizations (5): IndieWeb, Wikimedia Deutschland, Reporter ohne Grenzen, Mehr Demokratie e.V., netzpolitik.org Plans (1): de-plan1-sven.md — Germany plan with 6 challenges, 5 strategies Data (1): DE-Democracy-Metrics — V-Dem, RSF, EIU, ARD-DeutschlandTREND, Bundeswahlleiter, More in Common Cross-linking: KNOWLEDGE-GRAPH.md + entities.json index Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Model: Capitalist Realism (Mark Fisher)
Author: Mark Fisher (British cultural theorist, 1968–2017)
Core Thesis: It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The inability to think alternatives is not stupidity — it is a structurally produced condition. Capitalist realism is the pervasive sense that capitalism is not just the dominant economic system but the only possible one.
Key Concepts:
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Capitalist Realism: The ideological condition in which capitalism presents itself as the natural and inescapable horizon of possibility. Not a conspiracy — a cultural atmosphere. "There is no alternative" becomes not a political claim but an ontological one.
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Our pain is not our own (Fisher/Hillman): Depression and burnout are privatized but collectively produced. What appears as personal failure is often a social signal. Mental health becomes a matter of individual adjustment to systemic dysfunction.
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Privatized Melancholy: Collective grief and loss are converted into individual pathology. Consciousness-raising (Fisher) — recognizing the social substrate of personal suffering — as counter-strategy.
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Acid Communism (unfinished): Fisher's counter-program — collective joy, utopian imagination, solidarity as experience rather than obligation. The recovery of "a world more full of possibility."
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The Slow Cancellation of the Future: Cultural time has stopped. Popular culture recycles its past rather than imagining new futures. This is a symptom of capitalist realism's colonization of the temporal imagination.
Problems Addressed: PR-00001 (Meaning Crisis), PR-00003 (Performance Society Exhaustion), PR-00004 (Fascization — inability to imagine alternatives enables authoritarian capture)
Application: When an existing structure seems inevitable, ask: is this a fact of nature or a fact of capitalism? When personal suffering seems private, ask: what collective structure is this pain signaling?