Peripheral capitalist realism: Theorizing the affective foreclosure of futurity in Iran
Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology
Published online on June 15, 2026
Abstract
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This article examines the failure of recent political uprisings in post-revolutionary Iran through the framework of Peripheral Capitalist Realism (PCR), extending Mark Fisher's notion of ideological foreclosure. PCR describes a political-affective ...
This article examines the failure of recent political uprisings in post-revolutionary Iran through the framework of Peripheral Capitalist Realism (PCR), extending Mark Fisher's notion of ideological foreclosure. PCR describes a political-affective ...