Saturday, February 26, 2011

A Toy Car Makes Electricity

an interview on the dispersion

grows everywhere a sense of being adrift as castaways


interview appeared on February 26, 2011 in the journal Public of Madrid. The full version will be published in the magazine 8-9 Espai en Blanc (May 2011).

What is dispersion? What is the result?

is the kind of social experience that produces the hegemony of the market when the state loses its regulatory function and structuring of intersubjective relations. In the recent past, the state social molded in stable configurations, tailored to Fordist production system through institutions (called "discipline") as the family, school, hospital, barracks, factory, prison, etc. They molded the subjectivities, that is, ways of life. Were these institutional brands in its permanence, who was defining each, which linked certain bodies to certain names, tasks and social settings. And against these merged and casts, in many cases unjust and oppressive, were deployed modern emancipatory politics were first of all policies of alteration of the political structures established.

On the contrary, today the market is constantly assembling and disassembling the links according to their relentless pursuit of profit maximization. The disturbance becomes the norm and stability the exception. That is the dispersion.

[the rest of the interview here ]

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