El 07/03/12 15:34, Johannes Birringer escribió:
dear all
thanks for all the postings herel
I was intrigued to read the conceptual (theoretical) notions offered, perhaps
as a form of political thought or analysis, alongside the reports from the
activist fronts and resiliences, and here
i especially found it helpful to hear of movements allowing us to imagine the
urban contexts to be also, possibly, in strategic dependence politically on the
non urban (the regions and hinterlands).
So, thinking less of 'swarm' logics and emergences, and more of grown/rooted resiliences
and how they are/were "tactics of the past."
kamen argues:
This notion - of retreat, of losing the centre - is something I'm researching
right now in terms of art practice>
could you elaborate on that, and your proposition that citizens "produce public space",
perhaps also in response to Alan Sondheim;s justified skepticism, and his mentioning of the
"resilient governing forces"?
I was also trying to think of Aristide Antonas speaking about the situation in Greece
("Athens," he suggests, is "emblematic for the future" - why?) , and wanting to
hear more from Leandro about how he
values the rural based Sin Tierra movement in Brazil (i remember them
occupying a huge strip of space going down the hill towards the government
sector in Brasilia, i remember the red earth or sand where they had camped).
So many different locations were mentioned, in these past days, the struggles seem
always local, and how to you compare Fukushima and, say, the Organizing for
Occupation (O4O) movement to protest foreclosures of houses auctioned off in Queen,
New York? [cf. Gary Younge, "The Itinerant Left has found its home in Occupy,
27 Feb 2012, Guardian,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/26/us-left-home-occupy-middle-america].
Does it however require, as Zizek maintains, to think in totalities? (and to assume
neoliberal global capitalism to be one such totality unavoidably present and
powerful?)
I am going to try tomorrow to report on a discussion we had in London last week when
Slavoj Zizek came for a talk on "The Deadlock – Crisis, Transition,
Transformation: Revolutionary Thought Today", and his analysis of
the OCCUPY movements was not encouraging (suggesting that 2011 was the year of the
revival of "radical" politics, in its emancipatory form [OWS, Arab Spring, mass
protests in Europe] as well as in its reactionary form [Hungary, Scandinavian countries,
etc.]., Zizek hinted that, however, the very massive visibility of these protests does
bear witness to a frustrating deadlock -- what do the protesters effectively want? Do
they contain a vision which reaches beyond moralistic rage?).
I am unable to say anything yet, have conflicted feelings and am trying to understand what
"networking" means now; I was in Yamaguchi, Japan, last week for a workshop; and my
friends in Tokyo, who had been much worried about the fall out from Fukushima, tell me that
"the status of Japanese society has been changing completely.
since 60s and early 70s activism in Japan was very little, mainy because
massive students movement finished very badly at internal level (united
red army killings) and externally (huge repression by state police)
and because of Fukushima more japanese people is becoming to engage in
politics...
It is said that Mt. Fuji will be active; and very interestingly, after the
disaster last year, the leading companies move their head office to Osaka. For
example, Panasonic has moved their head office to Osaka and their procurement
department has moved into Singapore !
yes, and factories that were destroyed by tsunami are relocating to
Vietnam and Thailand...
so corporations will cut workers expenses, it said is gonna be a quite
big change for japanese productive economy
it s a typical corporate movement after a disaster, the ones that N.
Klein explained in the Shock Doctrine about the previous big tsunami in Asia
Thus, even in performing arts, we hope to construct huge networks all over the world
(not limited in internal Japan)." I participated in such a networked project last
week, but it was not activist or politicized, and thus unrelated to resilience,
resistance, recalcitrance. It had an artistic side and an educational outreach side (to
communities& children), but there was not a single reference to politics in four
days.
sure, I have been 3 months in an art center in Tokyo with the same -no
very much- political feedbak by artists
but there a few very political and active in town
you can see their work from page 42:
http://es.scribd.com/doc/81789987/NuclearPowerPlants-RadicalArt
best
pablo
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