Sorry for the delay but translate into English is a tough job, guys and gals! :) It took me twenty minutes to find the crossreferences to Deleuze and Guattari in English :( I read them in French Spanish and Swedish, never in English, the Wikipedia was not helping this time :)
I heard for first time the term resilience from some biologists investigating from a paleoenvironmental prospective the sanks and humid zones from the Uruguayan oceanic coasts. They used it to describe the capacity of those sensible ecosystems to adapt to changes in the sealevel (the sea went forward and backed tenso f kilometers from the Holocene period) and more recently to answer to the human actions which have been drying up huge surfaces of sank lanas. Surely this inicial contact with the term gives me a way to refer to the term as organicisting. In the same way when I think on the social struggles from a resilient point of view I think about them as immanent with maybe some addition of vitalism. The following reflection is based on this asociation to immanens and organicism. If I think about a resilient city, as the banados de Rocha or the shock absorbers of the cars I conceive it as an unity or a being reacting with flexibility to the external aggressions, overmounting it to continue it’s existence. But, which are the kina of aggressions make the reactions resilient? And which kind of existence is the one allowed to continue? The Occupy mov in New York reacts to the economical crisis generated by financial speculators which are threating the emplyment, the savings, the credits and now the social welfare and other public services, orginated on the cuts on the public budget. In Fukushima the reaction is against the environmental crisis started in the collapse of an nuclear plant changing the everydays life of millions of Japanese and threating their lives. They react to the threats to the peaceful sedentism which allow us to live in cities, these threats happen in the self core of those cities. Or the social reception to those movements is caused by it. The sedentism is a quality we find in the at the beginning of the first human concentrations and Status. Farmers, handworkers and administrators settle down in a place where they can get protection for them and for their wealth from the nomadic populations. The farming garantee the food input for survival and the waterworks made by collective efforts give water for cultivating the mark. We know how the story continues, to Foucault’s biopolitics, Sabemos como sigue la historia, hasta llegar a la biopolítica de Foucault, the patterned soil of Deleuze y Guattari and the sedentary metaphysics of Malkki. In the settlements the power doesn’t only give protection from attacks (from foreign invaders to robbers) but also social welfar (from public health to unemployment insurance); the only thing the individual must be prepare to give in exchange is the disponibility to work and and live in a fixed home (permanent residence), contributing in that way to rise the accumulation of wealth in this settlement. The threats to the securities given by the urban life explain in certain way the success of the occupants in New York. Their social demands are not only accepted in the rich countries, they are in the bottom of urban life itself. Las amenazas a estas seguridades que ofrece la vida urbana, explican parte del éxito de los ocupas de NY. The occupations are maybe a kind of social protest typical of the sedentism, the patterned soil. This is the paradox, a sedentary mobilization, a difference of the majority of the social mobilizations: Mao’s long march, the taking of the Bastille, the attacks from the Indian to the the colonies during the conquest of America or the “Silence Marchs”, which all the 25th of May goes through the center of Montevideo: there is a march, you walk and/or it’s necessary you run. -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia158 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/ http://www.scoop.it/t/literary-exiles/ http://www.scoop.it/t/museums-and-ethics/ http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/ mobil/cell +4670-3213370 "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci
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