Contradictory rationalities can symbiotically combine in one political subjectivity.

Evidence

But incoherence at the level of what Brown calls ‘political rationality’ does nothing to prevent symbiosis at the level of political subjectivity, and, although they proceeded from very different guiding assumptions, Brown argues that neoliberalism and neoconservatism worked together to undermine the public sphere and democracy, producing a governed citizen who looks to find solutions in products, not political processes. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 125

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: if dreams cover contradictions rather than resolve them, what keeps the neocon/neoliberal dreamscape from waking the citizen? The 2008 crisis is the obvious stress test.
• XREF: connects to: Anything can be two contradictory things at once, including social systems — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 56; Ideologically contradictory projects can symbiotically enforce one governed subjectivity — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 125; Multiple sometimes conflicting identities can coexist in one subject’s politics — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 262 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Articulation lets distinct practices with different contradictions be thought together. #expands (0.95) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 200
• Fatalistic determinism and crude voluntarism can coexist in one politics #exemplifies (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 864
• Multiple sometimes conflicting identities can coexist in one subject’s politics #corroborates (0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 262
• The masses hold a contradictory consciousness that can produce political passivity #exemplifies (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1199
• Neoliberalism holds together several unresolved internal contradictions by asserting both sides at once #exemplifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2142
• Holding conflicting values in tension drives more complex political thinking #exemplifies (0.80)
• Liberal democracy rests on two contradictory secular myths in tension with each other. #exemplifies (0.80)
• People readily hold mutually contradictory conspiracy beliefs simultaneously. #exemplifies (0.75) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 94
• People rationalize political non-involvement through differing accepted explanations. #exemplifies (0.75) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 60
• Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously #corroborates (0.75) — , A Year of World Stories, 4077