Obsolete political formations persist beyond their historical moment.
Evidence
Tony Blair’s brief appearance in this election campaign, offering tepid support for a tepid Ed Miliband, ought to have been irrelevant. In many ways it was: who needs yesterday’s man, the hawker of an outmoded “modernisation”? Except, like so much of today’s culture, Blairism is obsolete but it has not yet been surpassed. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1773
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Discourses persist beyond their origins and carry unexamined assumptions forward.; A legacy stops shaping politics once newer routines become cheaper — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 372; Political systems are transient whereas civilizations endure across millennia. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 116 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Institutional legacies persist after the conditions that produced them vanish
#corroborates(0.92) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 106 - Outdated institutional partitions persist by tradition long after their logic expires
#exemplifies(0.88) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1992 - Stale political habits persist after catastrophe like post-apocalyptic rituals
#exemplifies(0.82) - Political movements weakened by nostalgia for obsolete forms need institutional memory to learn
#expands(0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2232 - Stabilized politics make direct legacy influence fade into structure
#complicates(0.79) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 135 - Discourses persist beyond their origins and carry unexamined assumptions forward.
#expands(0.78) - A legacy stops shaping politics once newer routines become cheaper
#complicates(0.76) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 372 - Political systems are transient whereas civilizations endure across millennia.
#expands(0.74) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 116 - Left-behind communities’ political imagination focuses on the present, not a nostalgic past.
#complicates(0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 437