Ideologically contradictory projects can symbiotically enforce one governed 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
- XREF: Contradictory-rationalities-producing-single-subjectivity mirrors the earlier Milgrom point that cooperative equilibria survive despite individually inconsistent strategy logics, and Brown/Plato’s thesis that choice-absorption enables domination parallels Frankfurt School analyses of authoritarian personality. — connects to: Anything can be two contradictory things at once, including social systems — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 56; Contradictory rationalities can symbiotically combine in one political subjectivity. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 125; Dreamwork’s confabulated consistency models how ideology now covers its contradictions. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 123
Related
- Contradictory rationalities can symbiotically combine in one political subjectivity. (similarity 0.91)
- Neoliberalism and neoconservatism rule together purely through dreamwork’s confabulated consistency (similarity 0.80)
- Dreamwork’s confabulated consistency models how ideology now covers its contradictions. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Contradictory rationalities can symbiotically combine in one political subjectivity.
#corroborates(0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 125