Hester, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8511-8846 (2025) Domestic realism or something worse? Weird Economies.

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Abstract

Over a decade and a half ago, Mark Fisher published Capitalist Realism. In this book (I’m sure a familiar reference point for many readers), he explored some of the ways we’re encouraged to accept that there is simply no alternative to capitalism. We are taught that to imagine the world otherwise is a pointless exercise in naïve utopianism, and to dismiss those who espouse anti-capitalist viewpoints as fundamentally unserious. In the years since Mark’s death, this state of affairs has begun to shift a bit. In an era of protectionism, trade wars, disavowed climate collapse, and rampant ethnonationalism, the idea that things could be otherwise – or, more specifically, that they could be worse – seems to loom all around us. Capitalist realism is, at the very least, fraying around the edges.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Available online at https://weirdeconomies.com/contributions/domestic-realism-or-something-worse
Subjects:	Construction and engineering > Built environment Social sciences > Communication and culture Social sciences > Economics and economic history
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2026
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14544
Sustainable Development Goals:	Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being	Sustainable Development Goals:	Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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