Totalization seeks fragile control of a fragile subject in an indifferent world

Evidence

As for “power,” it is equally clear that praxis or totalization always aims at securing the fragile control or survival of an even more fragile subject within a world otherwise utterly independent and subject to no one’s whims or desires. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 719

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how ‘power’ functions within praxis as existential fragility-management.
• XREF: connects to: The unified self is a fragile construction sustained against the lure of dissolution. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 48; Totalization today means unifying with an eye to power and control — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 716; Totalizing ideologies are desperate efforts to escape responsibility — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 78 (+10 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The unified self is a fragile construction sustained against the lure of dissolution. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 48; Totalization today means unifying with an eye to power and control — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 716; Totalizing ideologies are desperate efforts to escape responsibility — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 78 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Total systems change, and human agency’s effects often subvert its intentions #complicates (0.76) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 467
• Theorizing away the concept of totality serves capitalism by hiding it from political challenge #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713