commons choreographic division of embodied research

commons choreographic division of embodied research

Commons Choreographic Division of Embodied Research enables an autonomous organisation of social practices, inclusive of the coördinates of their respective structures.
Within a common knowledge pool gathered in the Department of Bad Television , the practices bear affinities with Social Choreography (Andrew Hewitt / Michael Klien), the Undercommons (Stefano Harvey and Fred Moten) and the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis (Zizek / Zupancic / Dolar / … ).

“So these four points can be resumed: col­lect­iv­ism again­st private prop­er­ty, poly­morph­ous work­er again­st spe­cial­is­a­tion, con­crete uni­ver­sal­ism again­st closed iden­tit­ies, and free asso­ci­ation again­st the state.”

“These four points — the gen­er­al and stra­tegic dom­in­a­tion of glob­al­ised cap­it­al­ism, the decom­pos­i­tion of clas­sic­al polit­ic­al olig­archy, the pop­ular dis­or­i­ent­a­tion and frus­tra­tion, and the lack of another stra­tegic way — com­pose in my opin­ion the crisis of today. We can define the con­tem­por­ary world in the term of a glob­al crisis which is not redu­cible to the eco­nom­ic crisis of the last years, which is much more, I think, a sub­ject­ive crisis, because of the des­tiny of human beings is more and more unclear for them­selves. So these four points can be resumed: col­lect­iv­ism again­st private prop­er­ty, poly­morph­ous work­er again­st spe­cial­isa­tion, con­crete uni­ver­sal­ism again­st closed iden­tit­ies, and free asso­ci­ation again­st the state. It’s only a prin­ciple, it’s not a pro­gram­. But with this prin­ciple, we can judge all polit­ic­al pro­grams, decisions, parties, ideas, from the point of view of these four prin­ciples.

Take a decision: is this decision in the dir­ec­tion of the four prin­ciples or not. The prin­ciples are the pro­to­col of judge­ment con­cern­ing all decisions, ideas, pro­pos­i­tions. If a decision, a pro­pos­i­tion, is in the dir­ec­tion of the four prin­ciples, we can say it’s a good one, we can exam­ine if it is pos­sible and so on. If clearly it’s again­st the prin­ciples, it’s a bad decision, bad idea, bad pro­gram­me. So we have a prin­ciple of judge­ment in the polit­ic­al field and in the con­struc­tion of the new stra­tegic pro­ject. That is in some sense the pos­sib­il­ity to have a true vis­ion of what is really in the new dir­ec­tion, the new stra­tegic dir­ec­tion of human­ity as such.”

resources

Undercommons: Practices of valuation

Jodi Dean: Exploitation in communicative capitalism

Slavoj Zizek – Lacan: Research Desire

Slavoj Zizek “On Jacques Lacan” — Lacan formula’s of sexuation, relating to Aristotle. Logical square Hertovic: Un a / uni n

Aristotle: all <> some I.
all swans are white <> some swans are white.
all swans are none white <> some swans are none white.

Lacan:
all x are y.
one x is not y <> none x are not all y.

Thought fields and their thinkers:
Kant science.
Fichte: politics.
Schelling: art.
Art as a higher level of knowledge.
Hegel: love.

reading

Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation: Exploring Logical Consistency and Clinical Consequences

Research Desire (text for for reading sessions)

Connections between desire and knowledge in Hegel, Lacan and Tantric spirituality (texts for research)

Novel a (text in connection with DBTV video’s, for discussion, transcription and discourse production)

Novel a – Series (texts for interpretation in performative practices)