“For now, our desire has no name - but it is real. Our desire concerns the future - an escape from the dead ends and the vast desert of endless repetitions of capital - and it comes from the future - that future where new perceptions, desires, and knowledge will be possible again. So far, we can only grasp this future through flashes. However, it is up to us to construct this future, at the moment when - on another level - it is already constructing us: a new form of collectivity, a new possibility to speak in the first person plural. At some point in this journey, the name of our new desire will reveal itself to us - and we will recognize it.”

The twenty-two texts by Fisher included in this book, texts about capitalist realism and the secret sadness of the 21st century, represent a representative selection from his work, organized around the axes of unease, culture, and politics.