On _Hope in a Secular Age_, Joseph Winters writes, “It may be that a kind of giving up on certain prospects and objects of desire is precisely what is necessary to refuse the violent order of things (even though there is no escaping what is refused).”
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I wonder if it is precisely the cultivated desire to persist (in a certain manner) that forecloses the possibility of rupture, abolition, and dissolution.
