In Intervalla insaniae

"The State, as the horizon of human possibility, thus becomes the horizon of the thinkable. In terms of capitalist realism, this is due to the subordination of oneself to a ‘reality that is infinitely plastic, capable of reconfiguring itself at any moment’ (Fisher 2009: 54) – an adaptive mode that short-circuits our ways of being and thinking ... whereas statist realism denotes the cognitive-affective distribution of ‘inevitabilism’, a sense of incontrovertible certainty, a feeling that nothing can be changed outside of State politics. It is our best hope even if it is an imperfect system. The consequence is an inexorable repetition of the same – what Deleuze calls ‘dead repetition’ – because the world, and thought, has collapsed in on itself, producing a kind of Truman Show reality. Emancipatory politics, in contrast, ... entails on the one hand the destruction of ‘the appearance of a “natural order”’ and, on the other, the concomitant revelation that ‘what is presented as necessary and inevitable’ is ‘a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable’ (Fisher 2009: 17)."