Yes, but the point isn't whether or the political exists at this moment, it's whether or not it is incapable of acting contrary in any meaningful way to the process, i.e. who or what is calling the shots at the end of the day.
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From the interior of the political this is a classic cybernetic-organizational conundrum, not unlike the Hayekian critique of central planning. Inability to know the variables in play undermines attempts at managing their functioning, at least at higher scales.
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It doesn't follow that human agency is irrelevant simply bc we can't identify every causal variable acting on the system as a whole. On the contrary ...
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Not saying it's irrelevant. but there is an uncloseable gap between the operations of the system and political decisions about it (by the time we something, it has already happened).
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I agree, at least considered from a high level. I don't see how this precludes the political, however. If anything it seems to imply the opposite.
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I'm wondering if there is a semantic slip-up happening between the suggestion that the political lacks/is losing autonomy with a declaration that politics is absolutely impossible in this current moment/doesn't exist in toto.
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one point I'd add is that the current political frameworks are the result of deeper forces than the political will of the subjects involved.
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Of the *individual* subjects involved, certainly. I think we're all in agreement about that. The point of departure is the long term trajectory of the system.
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