#refusal of arrival

[raffaellopalandri]

Well Being Without Illusion: Learning to Live Without Promises of Arrival

Well being without illusion begins with a refusal, not a negation of joy or meaning, but a refusal to accept the metaphysics of arrival that saturates contemporary life. The promise of arrival is the central narcotic of late capitalist civilisation. It organises desire, structures labour, justifies exhaustion, and renders suffering tolerable by endlessly deferring fulfilment into an imagined…