but the point should emerge none the less clearly: the virtually unquestioned dominance of capitalism can be seen as a complex product of a variety of discursive commitments, including but not limited to organicist social conceptions, heroic historical narratives, evolutionary scenarios of social development, and essentialist, phallocentric, or binary patterns of thinking. it is through these discursive figurings and alignments that capitalism is constituted as large, powerful, persistent, active, expansive, progressive, dynamic, transformative; embracing, penetrating, discipling, colonizing, constraining; systemic, self-reproducing, rational, lawful, self-rectifying; organised and organising, centred and centering; originating, creative, protean; victorious and ascendant; self-identical, self-expressive, full, definite, real, positive and capable of conferring identity and meaning