![]() No beginning and no end in the sense of striated time that comes to a close after beginning, but rather merely being – all is illusion and always was, and maybe it always will be. We have lost track of the origin(s) – and metaphysically we drift into the realm of infinite and eternal becoming. In taking Baudrillard seriously, we might think about how we are awash in illusions and hyperrealities that deaden our ability to dream of worlds constructed otherwise. We may have gradually lost sight of the imaginative possibilities inherent in dreaming. In a sense, the hyperreal is always already mapping upon the terra firma of capitalism and forces our amnesia that the world was once differently configured. All is illusion, and perhaps there is no extirpation from this ever-widening gyre of conscious simulacrums and fascistic ersatz outside the nexus of commodity-fetishism. Yet, what if in this era of spin, and manipulative rhetorical flourishes, much pomp and circumstance has replaced what in the classical world constituted the substance of political formations. ![]() ![]() We are now awakening from a dream that has become a nightmare” (Zizek addressing Occupy Wall Street Protesters, October 9, 2011).Īre we sane enough to put forth the theory that all is an illusion? Or that we can somehow awaken from this socially constructed dream known as capitalism? Indeed, in the realm of politics, there are certain delusions that circulate through the social bodies of the polis that lead us to believe in a positive reality ‘out there’ – in the great beyond. No one dreams of the blue flower anymore (Benjamin, in Sulfur: 32)
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