The centerlessness of capitalism is unconsciously unbearable and disavowed

Evidence

I don’t for a moment want to excuse New Labour for its part in such disasters, but it has to be recognized that focus on government, like the focus on immoral individuals, is an act of deflection. Scapegoating an impotent government (running around to clean up the messes made by its business friends) arises from bad faith, from a continuing hostility to the Nanny State that nevertheless goes alongside a refusal to accept the consequences of the sidelining of government in global capitalism – a sign, perhaps, that, at the level of the political unconscious, it is impossible to accept that there are no overall controllers, that the closest thing we have to ruling powers now are nebulous, unaccountable interests exercising corporate irresponsibility. A case of fetishist disavowal, perhaps – ‘we know perfectly well that the government is not pulling the strings, but nevertheless…’ The disavowal happens in part because the centerlessness of global capitalism is radically unthinkable. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 130

Categorization

• QUESTION: If the centerlessness of capitalism is genuinely unthinkable, what social technology or discourse could ever make it thinkable enough to act on collectively?
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism has no center, only entities incapable of responsibility; Inherent dissatisfaction is endlessly sellable to capitalism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2250; Capitalism is a symptom of something deeper and unnameable in Western civilization — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1427 (+4 more)

Related

• The centerlessness of global capitalism is psychologically unthinkable, producing fetishist disavowal (similarity 0.92)
• Capitalism is an infinitely plastic system that dismantles all transcendent codes (similarity 0.82)
• Capital’s missing center still gets posited because what exists cannot take responsibility (similarity 0.81)
• Capital’s center is missing yet still posited as a responsible agent (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism has no center, only entities incapable of responsibility (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalist realism is belief in capital’s invincibility, not belief in its merits (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism is a symptom of something deeper and unnameable in Western civilization #corroborates (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1427
• Inherent dissatisfaction is endlessly sellable to capitalism #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2250
• Advanced capitalism generates an illusory conviction of individual self-centering among its elite classes #expands (0.72) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 808