Repeated failed returns to normal progressively destabilize the reality system

Evidence

These things erupt in an unexpected way, in a way that goes far further than people would anticipate before they happen. But then things seem to go back to normal, seem to stabilise again. But every time things go back to normal, so-called normal, then normality is much more unstable, I think, than it was before. This tendency of collapse at the moment, with what we’re living through, is the disintegration of the reality system, quite simply. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2142

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact dialectical account of how mounting crises erode ‘normal’ even when each eruption is contained — each restoration is more unstable than the last, culminating in disintegration of the reality system itself. Dense and worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: Memory stability depends on ongoing potential destabilization of the whole — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 89; When levels of temporal experience desynchronize, recovery requires cultural or structural revolution — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 150; Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 40 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Reality’s coherence depends on a reserve of un-mapped imaginary territory #expands (0.88) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 403
• Any stable reality is built by repressing an unrepresentable traumatic Real #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 40
• Memory stability depends on ongoing potential destabilization of the whole #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 89
• Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real #expands (0.76) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 40
• Instantaneity collapses history into a permanent amnesiac present #complicates (0.73)
• When levels of temporal experience desynchronize, recovery requires cultural or structural revolution #complicates (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 150
• The uncanny quality of mass-produced objects springs from repeating the unrepeatable #complicates (0.71) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 126