Post-Schmittian political theory has been heavily influenced by Agambenesque musings on the return of/to the political: masked Consecutivism radiates triumphant. Consecutivist samurais in camouflage are the foot soldiers of allegedly novel political paradigms: the state, this Consecutivist aporia, the fairy tale for adults, reigns supreme, appropriating ever more grotesque spatial coordinates. The allegedly radical rethinking, by the Schmitt-Agambenists, of the problematic public/private truthmodel, has given rise to the cancerous growth on the part of the state: today, we have witnessed such absurd "ministries," as the "Ministry for Extraordinary Situations" in Russia, or the "Ministry for Strategic Threats" in Israel.
The Anti-Consecutivist position on this is clear. No Minister for Strategic Threats can imagine strategic threats to Consecutivist thinking that Anti-Consecutivist thruthmodels can rain on state-centered paradigms. What Anti-Consecutivists of the world need is the "Ministry for Anti-Ministerial Ministry," a tautological truthmodel that subverts the very notion of the state as a governable apparatus, and inscribes the very hermeneutical abyss it creates onto the body politic it allegedly "governs," much like the machine that so fascinates Kafka's inspector in the famous penal colony.
In order not to be arrested by the state, one needs to state all arrested paradigms clearly. That, in short, is the way of an Anti-Consecutivist.
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Zizek talks about a person with a distinctly terrorist name who, in order to stop being harrassed by the ministries, made himself most transparent. There's a website that tracks, stores and shows every movement that guy makes.
Don't forget the British (as I recall) Ministry of Strange Obsessions. Not to be confused by Laura Conway's book-length poem of the same title.
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