|
i think the dithering about how to proceed and the problems of co-ordination are all examples of the cognitive problems this crisis is generating. under neo-liberalism in the states, the reality of erasure of the nation-state as a meaningful center of controls over capital flows were minimized by fairy tales of self-regulating markets on the one hand and neo-con style nationalism at the level of military action on the other. in other parts of the metropole, neoliberalism advanced a bit further in rendering problematic the nation-state, but there remain significant limits on how far thinking has been able to go. there's no doubt a circular relation between these limits and the post world-war-2 international structure, which is now obviously problematic and which now obviously has to be altered--the only question really is how much further things have to devolve for the political classes which are beholden to nation-state level social hierarchies for their own positions realize that the jig is basically up and that advantages can be accrued to those who are more rather than less proactive in shaping the new institutional infrastructure--assuming they don't dither so long that the entire capitalist house of cards falls in on itself.
if that happens, there are interesting essays to be written on clay tablets about the implications of cognitive crisis atop economic crisis.
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
|