Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future

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zackmorris · 2026-08 · Reference

Wait till we realize that nobody is buying the software we vibe code anyway. We've seen this game before, with the Dot Bomb and 9/11. A lot of you have 6 figure jobs that will simply be gone next year after the election, never to return. That winter lasted about 5 years until 2007 when the iPhone and social media sites like Facebook went mainstream. This winter won't end. Or more accurately, it is the end. Maybe we should stop debating whether we're in a crisis and start looking at the 5-10 year endgame of the Singularity. We're entering the eventuality that many of us have predicted since the arrival of the internet 30+ years ago, that prices will get lower but nobody will have any money to buy anything anyway. The feeling that we're doing something wrong with our lives will continue to intensify. We'll try so hard, and get so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm turning my attention away from trying to play the job game with AI. I'm looking instead at how we can provide time/money/resources to the middle class after capitalism can no longer provide them. A conservative friend of mine just read the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, which I didn't see coming, especially since he beat me to it. In the neurodivergent spirit of not being able to do anything alone, what if we all read it? [LINK] [LINK] I'm predicting that it stops just short of what full automation can provide. Loosely the evolution of economics goes: hunter-gat

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meeuwer · 2023-04 · Reference

Obligatory mention of Mark Fisher and his talk "The Slow Cancellation Of The Future". [1] [1] [VIDEO]

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thomassmith65 · 2022-08 · Reference

Related: – Mark Fisher: The Slow Cancellation Of The Future [VIDEO] - Ted Gioia: Society Without a Counterculture [LINK] I don't know whose, if anyone's, explanation, I believe. The phenomenon (of cultural stagnation) is real, though. This Gucci 'homage' to Stanley Kubrick struck me as an excellent example of the problem: [LINK] It's not just that it cribs from the past, but the cynicism: an ad that inserts some giddy fashion model into Clockwork Orange, and saps the scene of its irony. Kubrick pulled that film from the UK market after release for fear it had inspired a rape and a murder. An 'homage' doesn't turn a cautionary tale into an aspirational commercial.

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