Luke Skywalker arrives at the palatial spaceship; he is handcuffed, he is led to the core of galactic power, he learns from the Emperor that everything is going as planned…
The rebel fleet is hyperdriving into a trap, the Death Star is online, the Imperial Stormtroopers have surrounded Han Solo’s surprise—the Emperor Palpatine has planned everything. The plan appears to be perfect. Power over the future, and this is always the power to reproduce the state of power, requires total planning. But there is a flaw in the emperor’s plan. It lacks a singularity—a point in “a function that is not well behaved, that can blow up to infinity, and that is in some sense unrepresentable” (David Harvey). For Wall Street’s plans (profits forever), the absent singularity became a “black swan.” For the Emperor’s plans, the singularity turned out to be the Ewoks.
