Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
2009 Author: Mark Fisher
The book analyses the development and principal features of capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience.
Traumatic Realism
2000 Author: Michael Rothberg
Analyzes the impact of historical trauma on contemporary culture, in particular, the question of realism as one of the central problematics that the Holocaust forces back into view.