tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post7983386103494937438..comments2024-02-21T06:57:22.256-05:00Comments on Unemployed Negativity: A Point of Heresy: Balibar on Foucault unemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-41842296035778487002017-04-26T20:42:27.592-04:002017-04-26T20:42:27.592-04:00Of course one also thinks of the Fanon of _The Wre...Of course one also thinks of the Fanon of _The Wretched of the Earth_ in this context, where the revolutionary masses, the masses who collectively take up arms in struggle, are the collective protagonist that heals, learns, is transformed and transformative. All of this doing in Fanon is done collectively and in armed struggle.Singinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708523280942545349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-17017611660114534502016-07-29T10:31:48.780-04:002016-07-29T10:31:48.780-04:00This made me think of the 'early' neoliber...This made me think of the 'early' neoliberal period, where 'slack' was something worth noting. Or, maybe, could be noted without it being threatening. I think if there is a material counter-conduct, one connected to sociotechnical conditions, then perhaps its not to be found in the creative or artistic (or DIY) fringes, making 'another world', but in the 'hard to see' doing-the-bare-minimum, in performing enough so the non-performance goes unseen. If we are in a period of over-supply of labour, of too-much-productivity and the harnessing of ever-more human capacity (creativity, virtuosity, etc), then maybe counter-conduct is to be found in dragging our feet, something that manifests as the fear of hours lost at work to facebook, etc. Stretching the point, perhaps the endless eulogies about creativity and DIY/maker-culture mask a broader fear of a generalised 'slacking off', like the period around the Great Depression where the work ethic waned (as mapped so well by Sharon Beder in Selling the Work Ethic). Maybe what slack affirms is the performance, one that performs performance itself without actually engaging in it?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10573123986717349978noreply@blogger.com