“Ideology doesn´t arrive and say, "I am ideology". Ideology says: "I am nature, and this is how things are".”

— Mark Fisher (writer) , book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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British cultural theorist (1968-2017) 1968–2017

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