late capitalist

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late capitalist (comparative more late capitalist, superlative most late capitalist)

  1. Characteristic of late capitalism.
    • 1996, Barbara Sullivan, Gillian Whitehouse, editors, Gender, Politics, and Citizenship in the 1990s, University of New South Wales Press, page 64:
      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)
    • 2020 May 7, Sophie Gilbert, “'Upload' Satirizes a Capitalist Heaven”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      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.
    • 2024 June 5, Shirley Li, “This Show Understands the Absurdity of Modern Existence”, in The Atlantic‎[2], retrieved 1 July 2025:
      [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.

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