There Is an Alternative : With Herbert Marcuse and Mark Fisher Towards a Political Aesthetics of Neoliberalism The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse Fredric Jamesons pathbreaking analysis of the cultural logic of late capitalism and the late Mark Fishers work on post capitalist desire and acid communism. The main imperative is to formulate a possible (and as it turns out necessary) opening for aesthetic critique in the climate of contemporary neoliberal capitalism. This mode of aesthetic critique is then operationalized through an exemplary reading of the emancipatory poetics of Ben Lerners 2014 novel 10:04. About the author Lukas Schutzbach is a PhD candidate at the English Department of the University of Heidelberg. His research focusses on the intersection of neoliberalism contemporary American literature and questions of critical theory and aesthetics. Introduction Neoliberalism and One Dimensional Society One Dimensional Society and Emancipatory Art Emancipatory Art and Neoliberalism in Ben Lerners 10:04 Conclusions.