Accordingly time is not governed by the needs of deliberation but by those of rapid turnover. This has not always been the case. Culture can seem like war because culture is increasingly attuned to the tempos of fashion. Fashions are evanescent, wars are obliterative. Each is in the business of replacement.
Fashion produces new music, dress forms, new language or slogans.
There are two additional developments that have complicated the theoretical life. It is not at all clear today what would not count as politics. Accompanying this development, even complementing it, is the ubiquitous character of theory. Everyone is a theorist and only Stanley Fish is against it. Customized theory is the achievement of theory able to sniff out domination at the slightest stirring of the breeze.