![]() ![]() We’re left in no doubt that consumer capitalism and corporations – or rather one mega-corporation, Buy n Large – is responsible for this depredation and when we see eventually see the human beings in offworld exile, they are infantile and obese, interacting via screen interfaces, carried around in large motorized chairs, and supping indeterminate slop from cups. The film shows an earth so despoiled that human beings are no longer capable of inhabiting it. ![]() Far from undermining capitalist realism, this gestural anti-capitalism actually reinforces it. Time after time, the villain in Hollywood films will turn out to be the ‘evil corporation’. After all, and as Žižek has provocatively pointed out, anti-capitalism is widely disseminated in capitalism. In fact, capitalist realism is very far from precluding a certain anti-capitalism. ![]() In the cases of gangster rap and Ellroy, capitalist realism takes the form of a kind of super-identification with capital at its most pitilessly predatory, but this need not be the case. What if you held a protest and everyone came? ![]()
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