critical philosophy that becomes serviceable to power turns its own positives destructive

Evidence

These staged presidential assassinations are revealing because they signal the status of all negativity in the West: political opposition, the “Left,” critical discourse, etc. - a simulacral contrast through which power attempts to break the vicious circle of its nonexistence, of its fundamental irresponsibility, of its “suspension.” Power floats like money, like language, like theory. Criticism and negativity alone still secrete a phantom of the reality of power. If they become weak for one reason or another, power has no other recourse but to artificially revive and hallucinate them. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 91 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: enlightenment is indefatigably self-destructive in its own tendencies; Criticism and negativity secrete a phantom of reality that power needs — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 91; A rearticulated rationality functions as ammunition within power’s mechanics (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Criticism and negativity secrete a phantom of reality that power needs #complicates (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 91
• A rearticulated rationality functions as ammunition within power’s mechanics #complicates (0.80)