Defeat demands destroying old representations and truth to recognise transformed reality

Evidence

“We have to live this dead reality, this mad transition, in the same way that we lived prison, as a strange and ferocious way of reaffirming life. You could not escape the atrocious experience of prison, the contact with death and its violence. […] We were constrained to suffer dark romantic hallucinations. There was no longer any alternative. Certainly for us, there has never been any alternative to the world, but always an alternative in the world. A la Rauschenberg: a world that is assumed, shattered, reinvented in the form of its monstrosity. But even the possibility of such a heroism was denied to us. […] We have to live and suffer the defeat of truth, of our truth. We have to destroy its representation, its continuity, its memory, its trace. All subterfuges for avoiding the recognition that reality has changed, and with it truth, have to be rejected. […] The very blood in our veins had been replaced.” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1559

Categorization

• XREF: Connects with Fisher’s Capitalist Realism’s chapter on the 1970s defeats and the ‘no alternative’ ontology, and with Negri’s prison writings. — connects to: Debunking old illusions becomes a new ideology that destroys their truth. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 685; Deconstruction questions truth-production rather than denying truth. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 72; Rejecting all appearance as false illusion leads to losing truth itself — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 552 (+2 more)
• FICTION: Negri’s prison letter as dramatized testimony of a defeated revolutionary subject enduring a desert trial could seed a character study.

Broader Connections

• Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1495
• Debunking old illusions becomes a new ideology that destroys their truth. #qualifies (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 685
• Rejecting all appearance as false illusion leads to losing truth itself #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 552
• Deconstruction questions truth-production rather than denying truth. #qualifies (0.72) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 72
• Counterhistory functions to disinter truths that power has deliberately concealed #corroborates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 89