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Field Notes · April 2026 · 3 min read

Mark Fisher's Parable
of the Call Centre

Campbell Walker  ·  CaminoVision

The best way to explain capitalism's effect on the mind is to describe an inefficient call centre. This is what Mark Fisher does in Capitalist Realism, and it's one of the most clarifying passages I've read about why modern work feels the way it feels.

"It is not that there is nothing to do, it is that everything that needs to be done feels impossible."

— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

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