Books like Capitalist Realism

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher reads as critical, urgent. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Plague of Fantasies

Slavoj Žižek · 1997

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

The condition of postmodernity

David Harvey · 1989

Both explore capitalism

83% genome match

The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein · 2007

Both explore capitalism & neoliberalism

73% genome match

The Anti-aesthetic

Hal Foster · 1983

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

Chronicles of a Liquid Society

Umberto Eco · 2017

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism

Fredric Jameson · 1990

Both explore capitalism

59% genome match

Art After Modernism

Brian Wallis · 1984

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match

Müdigkeitsgesellschaft

Byung-Chul Han · 2010

Both explore capitalism

65% genome match

Our aesthetic categories

Sianne Ngai · 2012

Both explore capitalism

68% genome match

Történelmi regény

György Lukács · 1962

Both explore ideology

64% genome match

The terms of political discourse

William E. Connolly · 1974

Both explore ideology

66% genome match

Naissance de la clinique

Michel Foucault · 1963

Same philosophy feel

63% genome match