The space that elites need to manage public reality is disappearing

Evidence

Perhaps the reason that the Assange/Žižek dialogue was so disappointing is that Žižek’s basic point about the crisis of symbolic efficiency is now so clear that it doesn’t require much elaboration. It is one thing our knowing about the corrupt practices that the power elite routinely engage in; it is another for that knowledge to be officially validated. The space that power needs to manage reality is disappearing. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1566

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the idea of an ‘official version’ versus ‘open secret’ in the reader’s knowledge — resonates with the collapse of journalistic gatekeeping discussed in communication theory holdings. — connects to: Public and private space boundaries shift with power struggles; Elites occupy an interconnected world where the usual laws are shrugged off — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 446; Elite-promoted political paradigms can fail to displace mass-held frameworks that later return — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 453 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Public and private space boundaries shift with power struggles #corroborates (0.78)
• Elite ideological battles can pass almost unwitnessed by mass publics #corroborates (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1970
• Elites occupy an interconnected world where the usual laws are shrugged off #complicates (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 446
• Elite-promoted political paradigms can fail to displace mass-held frameworks that later return #corroborates (0.72) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 453