Dis-traction I

Now that what has previously been so clear has become simply and concretely true, it is much more difficult.  And, since the least likely messianism is the one which we do expect, we must be patient with ourselves amidst its offensive obviating.  Flinging her nipple-tassels, the slow deflationary collapse of Capitalism is giganticised in a withering tango with Capital itself.  Last week saw the demon-masks of potentas fall off even the most plausible bandits (Bernanke, Paulson, Boosh), revealing looks of joyous terror and the glow of Rapture.  More important even than wishing open aleas on our destinies, or measuring the wrecked machinery, we should look again at what libido will mean, what it has already long meant.

Elsewhere, and especially in my Kant lectures soon to be published on BEP, I have tried to analyze a certain traditional causal economy in terms of the diode contradiction - non-contradiction.  Likewise, I have tried to reencounter metaphysics as a discrete termporalizing according to the stylistic principles of something called non-contradictarianism. To the extent that non-contradictarianism was the repression of an indiscrete temporality which knew nothing of causal, inductive proprieties, it was ever an economy of displacement, of wounded attachments.  To the extent that it most manifestly was not this, i.e. to the extent that it represented a healthy and intensely modular (adaptable) abandonment of attachments, it seemed at times to be precisley the moving-into-futurity one would require to live anything like a post-economy.  

It is this second, high-functioning aspect I wish to focus on for a minute.  If we are to see a turn, an event which moving along the line of its circularity both arrives and departs, we shall be tempted to say that it does all this "at the same time."  This moment of Revolution being what it is in the dry-eyed cynicism of almost everyone, we should be careful to reiterate our operative uncertainty about how such a futurity, rooted everywhere as a history, defying the life-death discretionary economies, makes of libido itself a messianic force.  This deflationary play must be reckoned against (in the most positive way) all the control apperatai that seem this week to have preceded it, as well as against the post-contradictarian observer (super-ego).