Postcapitalist practices and human, economic, and cultural geographies

Abstract

This commentary engages with Callum Sutherland's article, ‘Mark Fisher and Reimagining Postcapitalist Geographies’ by outlining key characteristics of some contemporary prefigurative hybrids pointing towards postcapitalism. It offers certain exemplar developments of postcapitalist degrowth and ‘real valuist’ futures that indicate the potential, and challenges, for contemporary geographers to approach, engage with and expand into postcapitalist studies more formally. By way of an example – and well illustrating the significance Sutherland gives to grotesque stratigraphy – relations and activities of the degrowth formation Cargonomia are characterised by the principle of ‘frugal abundance’, a culturally transferable desire for meaning well beyond, and in antithesis to, precorporation. Real valuist imaginaries also epitomise Sutherland's explication of Fisher's acid communist politics and acid topological spatial imaginary of autonomy and commoning.