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  Kaloprosopia Rising     Consciousness has all but disappeared. In his 2013 talk for the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) collective, Mark Fisher clarifies that capitalist realism is most properly a form of consciousness deflation, a loss of the ability to imagine an alternative, and a lack of even thinking the problems of capitalism, which is “directly aimed at crushing” the consciousness raised in the 60s and 70s (Temporary). In his talk, Fisher identifies three types of consciousness—class consciousness, psychedelic consciousness, and consciousness-raising–-which have been smothered by the rise of neoliberalism. It is this last one which interests herethics most. Consciousness-raising was a process pioneered by socialist feminists wherein group members would gather together in groups and talk through how problems and feelings—whether social, familial, professional, or amorous—related to and were the fault of structures of capitalism and patriarchy.  All three forms of consci