With and Against Absurdity

This afterword joins the special issue in thinking with absurdity rather than making sense of it. Across fake latrines, ghost railway jobs, suspended migrants, futile hospital care, techno roundabouts and Cuban ostriches, absurdity emerges less as a concept than a condition: trap, tactic, performance, survival. It compels engagement where bullshit thrives on indifference, showing how power governs not despite absurdity but through it. Rather than only analysing absurdity, the afterword also argues for resisting it: letting it expose the limits of governance while refusing to be captured by its logic.