These are two complexes that sell comforting stories, one about hope and one about harmony. The comfort has a price. It weakens the Pauper's capacity to act on production, reproduction and co-production.
How the word moved
I announced them in February 2025 as targets for the Pauper's Affectology. By the end of the series in April 2025 I was recalling them as comforting narratives that never deal with the realities of power.
In my words
"the Hope Industrial Complex and the Harmony Industrial Complex."
from Bhumics Week 3: “The Pauper”, 4 Feb 2025
Related
- Related Affectology - the Pauper watches them with the Affectology eye.
- Related Pauper - they're what the Pauper has to see past.
Still open
I promised to analyse them "in detail in the coming weeks" and never wrote that essay. I still owe it.