#realism

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[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological position can never be really successful until it is naturalized, and it cannot be naturalized while it is still thought of as a value rather than a fact. Accordingly, neoliberalism has sought to eliminate the very category of value in the ethical sense. Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business. … [E]mancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.


Mark Fisher


#capitalist-realism #ideology #nature #neoliberalism #possibility

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.


Gore Vidal


#politics #realism #change

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.


Núria Añó


#feminism #freedom #gender #gender-inequality #hypocrisy

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.


André Breton


#dreams

The stars and planets don’t disappear just because it’s daytime.


Tami Egonu


#paranormal-romance #dreams

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.


Salvador Dalí


#mystery #surrealism #art

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.


André Breton


#surrealism #life

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.


Daniel Clowes


#certain #comics #fine #fine line #give

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.


Gustave Courbet


#forms #ideal #negation #painting #realism

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.


Salvador Dali


#destroys #destructive #limiting #only #our