Not to mention the fact that if this ‘dark matter’ did not exist, our universe would long ago have vanished into thin air. And this is, indeed, the most likely outcome if we succeed in eliminating it. Wherever this void – this antagonistic parallel universe, this radical illusion irreducible to the facts of the real and the rational – is eliminated, the real meets with immediate catastrophe. For matter in itself is a delusion, and the material universe is supported only by missing mass, whose absence is decisive. The real divested of the anti-real becomes hyperreal, more real than the real, and vanishes into simulation. Matter divested of anti-matter is doomed to entropy. By elimination of the void, it is condemned to gravitational collapse. The subject deprived of all otherness collapses into itself, and sinks into autism. The elimination of the inhuman causes the human to collapse into odium and ridicule (this we see in the pretension and vanity of humanitarianism).
“No matter how much it proclaims its pseudotolerance, the capitalist system in all its forms (family, school, factories, army, codes, discourse … ) continues to subjugate all desires, sexuality, and affects to the dictatorship of its totalitarian organization, founded on exploitation, property, male power, profit, productivity … Tirelessly it continues its dirty work of castrating, suppressing, torturing, and dividing up our bodies in order to inscribe its laws on our flesh, in order to rivet to our subconscious its mechanisms for reproducing this system of enslavement. With its throttling, its stasis, its lesions, its neuroses, the capitalist state imposes its norms, establishes its models, imprints its features, assigns its roles, propagates its programs … Using every available access route into our organisms, it insinuates into the depths of our insides its roots of death. It usurps our organs, disrupts our vital functions, mutilates our pleasures, subjugates all lived experience to the control of its condemning judgments.”
— Félix Guattari, “To Have Done With The Massacre Of The Body”
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