Thus the thirty-odd hours activities in the roads of Delhi, of government coming to the streets, can be viewed as the failure of this conflation. To term it as political drama is to foreclose further thoughts. If one views in the context from which it has emerged, it is possible to see it symptomatic of the crisis of split subjectivity: an activist subjectivity that is constituted by intensification of subjective energy, localization of presence and the contraction of the general will into the will of the present. And a representational subjectivity which was gained as post-electoral fall-out that functions through dilution, universalization and delegation. There is no transcendental possibility for the fusion of the two with harmony.
Spring had carried with it a bunch of promises; now begins the winter of discontent.
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