Saturday, June 11, 2011

Escape from Discussion Island

Marcel Broodhaers
Andrea Fraser
Hans Haacke

Is it too Deleuzian or Nietzchean to take care of the fact that material bodies are connected to immaterial labour, and that the laptop produces a particular life form?
A slightly hunched body connected to separation, strange to itself, happily amputated, monitored, Facebooking. The new fictions will arise from the unfortunate posture , somehow. While extending the discursive situation and its ever more efficient networks, these fictions will perhaps attempt to delay and defer work under conditions that always already put communicativity to work. Because these practices are networked and somehow public, and always mobilized in flux, communication will be constantly confused with something like a utopian promise. Productive communities and their formal freedoms will be encouraged and swiftly commodified, tracked and mined by marketers. They will be constantly formalized and codified. So the new fictions will have to learn to invent new ways of transforming what mobilizes them into opportunities for immobility.
How can parrhesia happen as a connexionist practice, in a molecular world where power is not located somewhere up above, but is activated everywhere within the most everyday relations between subjects and in the discursive flows that multiply them?

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