The alienation of the productive power from the producer, and the means of creating history from the self. In other words, in rationalizing and universalizing to itself the particular relations of capital in which it is embedded, the imagination exploits its own power to figure the outside. Thus setting up a hall of mirrors, an optics that denies its authentic agency in the world. Poetry creaks more or less eagerly toward the accomplishment of the small tasks allotted to it in this context. Disruptions of the exploitation of physical and imaginative labor only appear chaotic from the standpoint of the entrenched, familiar chaos.
Rebellions are logical.
Whether or not they are premeditated according to our juridical definitions. There is a limit beyond which people cannot be pushed without engendering insurrection. Within persons, the imagination is crossed by a corresponding boundary. After this point, in order to preserve a horizon for itself, the imagination rebels.