Clear consensus communication is an always-deferred fantasy projected by the system

Evidence

Because clear communication — and all it presupposes — is the fantasm the system projects as its vindication and necessarily always-deferred goal. … “The big Other stands for the field of common sense at which one can arrive after free deliberation; philosophically, its last great version is Habermas’s communicative community with its regulative ideal of agreement.” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 950

Categorization

• XREF: Fisher’s claim that consensus/communicative-rationality is a system-projected fantasy directly connects to his capitalist-realism thesis in this same book and to the Frankfurt School volume on Critical Theory’s positivism dispute. — connects to: Consensus is shaped and structured by unequal power rather than freely formed — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 919; Communication succeeds only through shared contextual beliefs that cannot be fully formalized; Social systems reproduce through self-referential communication, not individual will — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 20 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Consensus is shaped and structured by unequal power rather than freely formed #qualifies (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 919
• Instrumentalized communication destroys the possibility of shared truth #corroborates (0.80) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378
• An ideal society requires full communication between all its parts #exemplifies (0.80) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 904
• Communication is never neutral but embeds constitutive historical power relations #expands (0.78) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 996
• Communication succeeds only through shared contextual beliefs that cannot be fully formalized #qualifies (0.75)
• Increased contact builds mutual belief frameworks that reduce miscommunication and exploitation #contradicts (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 703
• Social systems reproduce through self-referential communication, not individual will #complicates (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 20
• Modern communication systems sustain reliability despite lacking shared moral grounding. #qualifies (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 209
• Communication constitutes reality rather than merely representing it #expands (0.72) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 382
• All communication rests on a non-negatable taken-for-granted baseline #qualifies (0.72)