Speed, Timothy: Politics After the Repair Illusion - World-capability, Ontological Displacement, and the Boundary of Abstract Simulation

This paper argues that the political order of the past decades rested on a fundamental error: the assumption that the world is, in principle, repairable. International institutions, interventions, and governance models operated under the implicit ontology that political interventions are reversible, translatable, or integrable. This assumption is not merely optimistic, but empirically, historically, and ontologically false. Political actions can produce ontological displacements: irreversible th