

If the steadily increasing stature and relevance of the book itself hadn’t assured it, then it would have been the wave of grief that followed Fisher’s death in January 2017, whose intensity signalled to others how important a figure he had become in contemporary cultural criticism and the theorization of political alternatives. The sense that there can be no alternatives continues to persist, even if they are no longer quite as confidently underwritten by neoliberal ideologyĪ second edition of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) seemed inevitable by the end of the 2010s.
