Nonfiction. Criticism and Theory. Political Science. An infinite series
of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our
loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats and restorations of
order. At any given moment different paths open up in front of us, and
we are continually presented with the alternative of going here or going
there. Then we decide, we cut out from a set of infinite possibilities
and choose a single path. But do we really choose? Is it really a
question of a choice, when we go here rather than there? Is it really a
choice, when masses go to shopping centers, when revolutions are
transformed into massacres, when nations enter into war? It is not we
who decide but the concatenations: machines for the liberation of
desires and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. The fundamental
bifurcation is always this one: between machines for liberating desire
and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. In our time of digital
mutation, technical automatisms are taking control of the social psyche.