Feudal Realism? Medieval Lessons for Escaping Capitalism

Beskrivelse

Mark Fisher famously described the phenomenon of capitalist realism as "a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action". Put more pithily, he described it as the mental horizon where "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". How far can we historicise this phenomenon? Did people in the Middle Ages also struggle to imagine alternatives to feudalism (insofar as the term "feudalism" can be rehabilitated, following the many declarations of its abolition in the 1990s)? What methods of the imagination were available to those who sought to dream their way out of feudalism?

Periode	8 nov. 2023
Sted for afholdelse	Historisk Studiekreds, Danmark