… films such as […] Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stalker – plundered by Hollywood since as far back as Alien and Blade Runner – were produced in the ostensibly moribund conditions of the Brezhnevite Soviet state, meaning that the USSR acted as a cultural entrepreneur for Hollywood.

mark fisher 2009: capitalist realism – is there no alternative?, zero books, 76-77.

(kürzlich nochmal gelesen. wahnsinnig anregender essay. wenn ich meinen brottext endlich fertig geschrieben habe, muss ich das mal ausmalen.)