Linguistic Politics

During the election season for 2016, the liberal-left media was continuously perplexed by Donald Trump’s ability to be strengthened by supposed scandals, speaking of him in the same manner which ended the careers of politicians previously. Slandered on all fronts for the entire season, his negative coverage instead carried him to the presidency. The same lessons which were taught - though not discovered - by Trump have time and time again been put into practice with great success over and over against the liberal-left media as they react in identical ways with no reflection on their mistakes. An attack meme - Trump, Pepe, the okay hand sign - is sent with no authoritative relationship beneath its point of origin, but with semiotic linkage to its point of origin by way of context and usage of symbols and references. The symbol itself is sent, possessed of an unseen power, where the basic template appears to be apolitical but acquires politics through context repeatedly given to it. The core of the meme itself, the green frog at the center holds no power whatsoever in the meme-image, the frog itself rather functions as the carrier for whatever is attached upon it. The meme is thus not as a work of art, but as a discourse through which works of art are created within, which is infinitely redistributable, wherein every iteration of the meme carries with it a “proof of work” due to context and reference to other works of art contained within the discourse that is the meme. As this operates on additional dimensions of communication accessible through the increasing of scale and intensity of communication, when applied to traditional media, the meme-image spawns the entire context of the meme from its existence. The traditional media encountering it are then sucked into it, attempting to find the phallic symbol at the core of the meme-image and end up in an eternally elusive quest, where they have been fully inducted into being a subject of the meme, having raised the meme’s symbol to a transcendental signifier, just as that which flows through the meme has the meme as the transcendental signifier.

At the individual level, what occurs here is the conflicting of the individual goals with the post-human which the individual exists within - Meditation as I’ve referred to it previously (Objects, Subjects, Entities). The transcendental signifier is a position which only exists to constitute the complete form of the post-human entity that the individual is entered into, an organization of the discourse which the individual has made themselves a part of. This process works in both directions however, as it can be used from without to attack and affix-define those which it targets, such as in the case of a slur, or it can be used from within to create a post-human entity, the signifiers of which have more controlling relationships with those who wish to control them, such as in the case of reclaiming a slur.

What has henceforth been referred to as “traditional” however is only “traditional” in the current context, it has, in many times and places, been revolutionary. The cleft in the left’s competing ideologies illustrates the gulf between accessing and being foreclosed from the post-human, at least in a productive sense. Communism has at its core entities, the revolution, the utopia, the state, the imperial cults of Stalin and Mao, which allow it to operate on the same post-human registers of religiosity which create political entities. Anarchism demonstrates the inverse, the self-destructive inward-looking tendency of the rational to annihilate its own chances at success at accessing the plane of mediation, the plane of the post-human which all human communication takes place on, in its continual rationality. By a slavish devotion to the real, or the pre-human, anarchism and rationalism generally is eternally doomed to infinite schisms and splits, as more and more is discarded until all that remains is the individual and their solitary connection to the real.

Using their linguistic capabilities to foreclose themselves from operating on the plane on which linguistics origins (the plane of the post-human), the left’s failures to have a positive project become obvious. The left emerges from the rationalist impulse to tear down all that which is outmoded and irrational, seeking to restore some natural order to things, or at least to create a negative liberation wherein the artifice under which people exist is torn away. This is explicitly shown in the current attacks of the right on the left, where the continual assertion of a construction such as “race” being “real” shows this split - the left has no positive project, only a terminal splitting until they arrive at that which cannot be split further, while the right is obsessed with the positive projects, the gods being birthed in the symbol of the Sonnenrad, now transmuted from its obscure origins as Sun-Wheel to the neo-swastika Black Sun. Such is shown in the left’s inability to learn from the lessons taught to them in the 2016 election cycle. Forever concerned with submitting to the real, they also submit to their means of accessing the real, the linguistic, which they are foreclosed from attempting to control or use for their own ends. When a positive vision is thus presented, it becomes part of their real and they must submit themselves to it, commenting only to comment on that which their enemies say and never commenting to speak for their own sake.