Still, one does not need to resort to Nietzsche’s heroic rendition of artistic creation to note that contract is the often-violent projection of a
genealogy and an infrastructure of obligation or – put in simultaneously
moral and economic terms – of indebtedness. ndeed, for social contract theorists such as Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
their origin-stories of the social contract were explicitly put forward as
fiction, albeit as they saw it, a necessary fiction.

p.g. 22

What new fictions can we weave which are not so implicitly entwined with a notion of indebtedness?