Modern visions of order generate the very disaffection they aim to cure

Evidence

Modernity is an inherently transgressive mode of being-in-the-vvorld. Visions of order are born out of disaffection with the existing state of affairs; while attempts to make such visions into flesh give birth to new disaffections and new, revised, and so deemed to be improved, visions. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 431

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Civilized order makes happiness a travesty whether it sanctions or forbids it.; The culture industry’s apparent ordering function actually destroys order — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 837; Subversive irony requires stifling order; sprawl lacks such order. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 936 (+1 more)