In section 68 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about machination and lived experience reciprocally drive each other to the extreme (thereby extending the deformations of beingness), how the discovery of “nature” was prepared for by the supernatural, and how the attitude of imitating and continuing the same “believes itself to be all the more creative the more it pursues its own ending.” We then discuss a recent experience with some liberal friends whose politicized trauma, resistance to questioning, and worst case scenario projection exemplify the generative relations between machinated theory and lived anxiety.

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