​I. The present order of the world is now giving way, and a new order now struggles to emerge and take hold. This struggle is at once being waged at the scale of the Earth, but also within the microphysics of everyday life.

II. Crises of the climate and environment, of economic growth, and of the global border system have shown that the present order is no longer capable of guaranteeing “the good life” for those in the capitalist core, and as such this order has lost all legitimacy.

III. The wager of the core powers is that militarized submission abroad and securitized terror at home can solve or at the very least indefinitely defer these crises, and as a result they increasingly abandon any semblance of democratic politics, state welfare, and liberal norms.

IV. This militarization and securitization is reflected socially in a retreat from the political, resulting in lives which are concerned only with their ability to afford and consume cheap goods and online content without interruption, living within ever more solitary existences.

V. The turn towards naked domination at the level of the state and economy is occurring at a historical moment where such brute methods have proven to be increasingly brittle and ineffective, with major states regularly suffering defeats to asymmetric forms of war and insurgency.

VI. Major powers thus rely more and more on spectacular forms of violence, forms which dampen resistance by sustaining the appearance of domination, as well as upon forms of genocidal violence which leave no resistance possible because no life remains.

VII. The embrace of militarization and securitization thus nonetheless remains dependent upon a large part of the global population remaining content to live as spectators and consumers, and to filter out and remain numb to the destruction and death which accumulates all around.

VIII. This emergent order cannot be undone by politics, as no political forms remain capable of halting a power detached from such processes. The response must rather be ethical, rejecting the poverty of ‘this life,’ a life premised upon passive consumption and/or subjugation.

IX. An ethical response to this order necessarily arises as disorder, as anarchy, as a departure from ‘this life’ and a pursuit of a life premised upon the rejection of its endless degradation and devaluation, as a form of everyday life lived against whatever would subjugate it.