Tales from the Interregnum: Review of Monster Capital

Aran Ward Sell Under Review:Monster Capital: Tales of Modern Unease. Edited by Ra Page & David Sue. Comma Press, June 2026. The late Mark Fisher is increasingly revered as a modern prophet. He stands at the crowded intersection of leftist zeal, theoretical critique and pop culture, shaking his fist at the moribundity—and deadening mediocrity—of late capitalism’s rotted grasp. A lengthy quotation from his best-known book, Capitalist Realism (2009), was stencilled onto a wall at Goldsmiths University (captured in a viral image entitled “two kinds of leftists”, juxtaposing Fisher’s analysis against a feral scrawl reading “BE GAY. DO CRIMES.”). The quote reads: Emancipatory 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. This is Capitalist Realism’s central position: that a once-emergent economic system grew…