late capitalist

comparative more late capitalist · superlative most late capitalist · alternative late-capitalist

1. Characteristic of late capitalism.

   Indeed, this peculiar juxtaposition of a discourse about needs with discourses about rights and interests is one of the distinctive marks of late capitalist political culture. (Fraser 1989: 162)

   1996, Barbara Sullivan, Gillian Whitehouse, editors, Gender, Politics, and Citizenship in the 1990s, University of New South Wales Press, page 64

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   If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera.

   2019 June 4, Annie Lowrey, “Too Many People Want to Travel”, in The Atlantic

   Nora’s right: The digital afterlife Nathan is in isn’t perfect, but it is perfectly attuned to the show’s earthly world, a 2033 late-late-capitalist America where corporations have found a way to monetize heaven itself.

   2020 May 7, Sophie Gilbert, “'Upload' Satirizes a Capitalist Heaven”, in The Atlantic

   [Julio] Torres regularly uses audacious visuals to interrogate the logic of living in our late-capitalist era; there’s nothing more amusing, his stories insist, than being in a world that values companies over people, that forces humans to endure bureaucratic labyrinths just to deem themselves, well, human.

   2024 June 5, Shirley Li, “This Show Understands the Absurdity of Modern Existence”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 01 Jul 2025