Anti-system philosophy reproduces the reified system illusion it flees.

Evidence

For the most part, however, specific ideological mirages are produced, as it were, in spite of the apparatus rather than because of it. In the desperate flight from everything ontological or foundational about the old philosophical “system,” a kind of antisubstantialist doctrine about sheer process is invoked, and a momentum develops — thought as operation rather than as conceptualization — that nonetheless yields the old illusion of system and ontology in the pauses between the operations and the reified appearance of discourse served up on the page. Reification, indeed, not to mention commodification, would offer another “code” in which to characterize the same general fate or destiny of theoretical discourse, as it finds itself thematized and transformed into someone’s personal philosophy or system. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 850

Categorization

• XREF: Chimes with the waning of affect and commodification themes in Jameson’s own argument; also resembles the ‘thought as operation’ motif found in process philosophy reads. — connects to: The system neutralizes opposition by absorbing critique into indifference — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 539; The Real reasserts itself through attempts to flee it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 518
• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘theoretical discourse production’ produces: not genuine ontology but reified pseudo-systems.