What if power is not written in stone but like media recorded, played, erased, re-recorded, rewritten repeatedly, and rehashed as nostalgic storylines?
Power, rather than written on high, appears amidst a kind of dumb, interactive exchange, where power occasionally dons the mask of symbolic order as needed: the “stability of power” makes a strong entrance when needed, but typically, higher truth is absent, letting the axiomatic rewrite us.
This underscores Fisher’s comments: With power, you only need to see it; you won’t read it. Capitalism is “profoundly illiterate:” “you play it, it plays you.”
Power is not uni-directional, but a mutual persuasion (you watch it, it writes you, you record over it). It does not need an ideological strategy to win you over but functions like a contagion upon contact, where you invite in repeatedly, aligning yourself to its process, over and over.
(idea from Mark Fisher)