The only way out is to choke debate on its own ludicrous hyperbole, a satirical look at
the culture that is debate is the only way to blow debate to smithereens. As long as
we keep trying, our fissure in the oedipal logic of debate will blow the whole thing up.
David Savat and Tauel Harper, 7-28-2016, (David Savat is a lecturer in Communication and Media
Studies at the University of Western Australia, Australia, Tauel Harper is Lecturer in Communication and
Media Studies at the University of Western Australia. "Media After Deleuze," Bloomsbury Publishing,
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/media-after-deleuze-9781472523587/) //LFP
Edited for [] ableist language
Media under capitalism has developed an infinite array of methods of dealing with 'objections' and
'opposition'. Going to the mass media with a problem in the hope they might change something is like
going to a lion's den with a baby lamb - aIl they see is something they can consume. Your problem will
be broken down into socially acceptable representations, fed back to the people in a way that won't
upset them, maybe provide them with a reason to consume and certainly ensure that nothing changes.
As Marx suggested, capitalism loves a limit to overcome. We need, instead, to start going to the media
with the kind of consumables that will make them choke: 'We have to rec1aim farce, produce and invent
delirious subjectivities capable of c1ashing with capitalist subjectivity and make it crumble' (Guattari and
Rolnik 2008, 42). As mentioned in the 'news' chapter, WikiLeaks has made precisely this move by
producing a flow of information that the state cannot swallow or digest; which thus forces a real
deterritorialisation of the state, constructing a line of flight toward humanity and liberty beyond the
interests of the state and capital. Television news shows that satirise their own genre, such as the now
defunct Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, highlight the ludicrousness of not just
their content but also their form, encouraging the viewer to accept the farcical nature of the media
assemblage as part of their condition. While the true subversive potential of such programming is
limited by its operation within the mass media assemblage, it reveals the [insanity] contradictions of
that assemblage instead of simply denouncing it (Guattari and Rolnik 2008). Stewart and Colbert did not
bring down the system and it has moved them both along now, but they will hopefully continue to
produce fissures, farces and flow-disruptions. One day such a fissure will reach the right audience and
create 'a-signifying rupture' that will release a flow over the whole social field and destroy the
consumption-based, Oedipalising mass media assemblage entirely - blow it apart so we can create
something new.