-
"While those favouring the interiority of relations tend to use organisms as their prime example, Deleuze gravitates towards other kinds of biological illustrations, such as the symbiosis of plants and pollinating insects. In this case we have relations of exteriority between self-subsistent components such as the wasp and the orchid relations which may become obligatory in the course of coevolution. This illustrates another difference between assemblages and totalities. A seamless whole is inconceivable except as a synthesis of these very parts, that is, the linkages between its components form logically necessary relations which make the whole what it is. But in an assemblage these relations may be only contingently obligatory. While logically necessary relations may be investigated by thought alone, contingently obligatory ones involve a consideration of empirical questions, such as the coevolutionary history of two species. In addition to this Deleuze considers heterogeneity of components an important characteristic of assemblages. Thus, he would consider ecosystems as assemblages of thousands of different plant and animal species, but not the species themselves, since natural selection tends to homogenize their gene pools. In what follows I will not take heterogeneity as a constant property of assemblages but as a variable that may take different values. This will allow me to consider not only species but also biological organisms as assemblages, instead of having to introduce another category for them as does Deleuze. Conceiving an organism as an assemblage implies that despite the tight integration between its component organs, the relations between them are not logically necessary but only contingently obligatory: a historical result of their close coevolution. In this way assemblage theory deprives organismic theories of their most cherished exemplar."
DeLanda, A New Philosophy of Society
Looking into assemblages lately. Also reading more and more autonomist stuff. Moving toward that now—digging the Italians and their tradition. Still think immaterial labour is dumb, though. Adjust expectations accordingly.
(via 20yardsoflinen)
This is amazing. but does ask a lot more questions than it answers for me…..
-
"Witch hunting was also instrumental to the construction of a new patriarchal order where women’s bodies, their labor, their sexual and reproductive powers were placed under the control of the state and transformed into economic resources. This means that the witch hunters were less interested in the punishment of any specific transgression than in the elimination of generalized forms of female behavior which they no longer tolerated and had to be made abominable in the eyes of the population."Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (via trenchesfullofpoets)
-
"It is common knowledge that family relations are alienated and alienating, that the “love” we have for our fathers, mothers, children and siblings has to be expressed through the work we do for them—work which produces them as commodities. All family members—even within the “love” of the family—are not protected from but remain subject to capital’s will and discipline. Children “must” go to school whether they want to or not, for example, and everyone is aware that the family is in reality the pool of labor on which capital draws. It appears as a place of “love,” but is in reality a place of alienation, of commoditization, of non-communication."Leopoldina Fortunati, The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital (via trenchesfullofpoets)
-
Petri, E. (Director). (1971). La classe operaia va in paradiso [Motion picture]. Italy: Euro International Film.
Weeks, K. (2005) The Refusal of work as demand and perspective. In Murphy, T. S., & Mustapha A. K. (Eds.), The Philosophy of Antonio Negri: Resistance in practice (pp. 109-135). London: Pluto Press.
-
"When we feel lonely, deprived of the analytic categories that would tell us where we are actually going, what keeps us going and encourages us in our research are the people, the images and the relationships dearest to us"Christian Marazzi (via lucjanlocke)
-
-
Mainzer strasse pre-eviction, battles against gentrification still rage in Berlin today.
About me
Towards an Apocalyptic Marxism ☭
"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established , an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."----
The German Ideology, 1845
