Dreamwork’s confabulated consistency models how ideology now covers its contradictions.

Evidence

If memory disorder provides a compelling analogy for the glitches in capitalist realism, the model for its smooth functioning would be dreamwork. When we are dreaming, we forget, but immediately forget that we have done so; since the gaps and lacunae in our memories are Photoshopped out, they do not trouble or torment us. What dreamwork does is to produce a confabulated consistency which covers over anomalies and contradictions, and it is this which Wendy Brown picked up on when she argued that it was precisely dreamwork which provided the best model for understanding contemporary forms of power. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 123

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Shifts the classical ideology model from concealment/repression to immediate self-forgetting of gaps — a refined diagnostic tool for contemporary power worth sitting with.
• XREF: Builds on the reader’s prior notes on Freudian dream logic and self-forgetting as a mechanism; echoes the Culture Industry’s claim that pleasure returns subjects to resignation. — connects to: Dreamwork’s confabulated smoothness models how capitalist realism papers over contradictions — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 122; Dreamwork’s confabulated consistency models how contemporary power maintains itself — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 123; Neoliberalism and neoconservatism rule together purely through dreamwork’s confabulated consistency — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 123 (+5 more)

Related

• Dreamwork’s confabulated smoothness models how capitalist realism papers over contradictions (similarity 0.93)
• Neoliberalism and neoconservatism rule together purely through dreamwork’s confabulated consistency (similarity 0.90)
• Ideologically contradictory projects can symbiotically enforce one governed subjectivity (similarity 0.79)
• Contradictory rationalities can symbiotically combine in one political subjectivity. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Dreamwork’s confabulated consistency models how contemporary power maintains itself #expands (0.92) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 123
• Neoliberalism’s resilience rests on deliberate epistemic inconsistency across discourse levels. #exemplifies (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 93
• Neoliberalism and neoconservatism rule together purely through dreamwork’s confabulated consistency #expands (0.82) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 123
• Ideologically contradictory projects can symbiotically enforce one governed subjectivity #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 125
• Apparent conservative ideological contradictions are strategically coherent #exemplifies (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1693
• Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden #complicates (0.75)
• Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity #complicates (0.72)