ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that progressive politics needs a new language of radical transformation that can defeat the violent implosions of meaning within agendas of hate and greed. The task of radical politics is precisely in confronting the infinite possibility of the anti-political as post-referential jouissance, parading inconsequentially as an endless form of entertainment and a revenue-building enterprise of mainstream media. The effect of a structural negation of politics—cognitively, reframing opposition as pure "anti-politics"—is what brings civil society together. The civil society, in displacing the potential for democratic transformation onto an autonomous space of the social, might experience solidarity in the very moments of its potential fracturing through erstwhile cognitive coalitions of the "majority". The insidious curtailing of state spending and weakening of controls over agendas of planned development reverberated with calls for an intensification of civil society to register violations of human rights or constitutional entitlements.
