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French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) pondered the question of what holds all of this together. The idea could be summed up as follows: what kind of structures in a capitalist social culture enable functional continuity despite the contradictions they involve, or is the transition to a totalitarian society closer than we realise?

Poet Paul Celan (1920-1970) wrote about the era of the collapse of European civilization after WWII. He referred to it in a poem he called Stuttered-over-again World. It was a world that meant an inability to face the human and cultural disasters that …