deschooling.classroom(o^o)

Ovaj tekst je grupa ” Čitanje Marksovog Kapitala” koristila kao jedan od materijala za radionicu sa Dušanom Grljom.

Oblik vrednosti

Analiza robe je pokazala da ona predstavlja nešto dvorodno – upotrebnu vrednost i vrednost. Stoga, da bi neka stvar imala oblik robe, mora imati dvojaki oblik, oblik neke upotrebne vrednosti i oblik vrednosti. Oblik upotrebne vrednosti je oblik samog robnog tela, gvožđa, platna itd., njegov čulno osetan oblik postojanja. To je prirodan oblik. Oblik vrednosti robe jeste, naprotiv, njen društveni oblik.

A kako se izražava vrednost neke robe? Dakle, kako ona dobija svoj pojavni oblik? Kao odnos raznih roba. Da bismo pravilno analizirali oblik sadržan u takvom odnosu, moramo poći od njegovog najprostijeg, najnerazvijenijeg vida. Najprostiji odnos neke robe je, očigledno, njen odnos prema jednoj drugoj robi, svejedno kojoj. Stoga odnos dveju roba predstavlja najprostiji izraz vrednosti za neku robu. Read the rest of this entry »

On occasion of the publication of his 2 books [The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Poetics of Knowledge] Jacques Rancière visited Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia from March 29 to April 04, 2010. In Belgrade, Zagreb, Rijeka and Ljubljana Rancière held 3 lectures and several discussions.

Participants of the Deschooling Classroom project had opportunity to meet and discuss with the famous French philosopher about his lecture in Belgrade, and also about his critical ideas from the  book The Ignorant Schoolmaster, which is one of the tree most important references for this project.

Here you can find an audio documentation of the Rancière’s discussion with the Deschooling Classroom participants:

http://www.deschoolingclassroom.tkh-generator.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC-razgovor-sa-Ranciereom.wma

Here you can find an audio documentation of the Rancière’s Belgrade lecture The Method of Equality: Politics and Poetics:

http://boo.mi2.hr/~pietro/Method_of_Equality.mp3

For more info about the philosopher, his books and the events in Belgrade, Zagreb, Rijeka and Ljubljana, visit:

http://ranciere.mi2.hr/

http://www.edicijajugoslavija.net

I would like to give you some insight into the activity and context

of the our workgroup and collective practices that I am part of….

I am speaking here as an artist

who is mostly involved into different type of collective projects.

So at my talk I will try to explain how our group

was formed in a particular historical moment

and under which condition we operate,

why we choose that particular type of activities and not other ones;

and give your some examples and insights into our

political, theoretical and aethetic background

and local context that stands behind our activity.

Chto delat/What is to be done? is a group of artists, philosophers,

and writers from Petersburg and Moscow.

Chto delat was initiated in spring 2003 in Petersburg.

The core member of the future group were participants

in organizing an action called “The Re-foundation of Petersburg.”

It was one of collective protest action to the process

that had happened in real political life -

namely the celebration of the 300 Anniversary of the Petersburg.

In the days of those official and pompous celebration,

that actuallly I can say NOW opened the age of new

repressive admistration of everyday in a new Putin’s Russia

the small group of about 30 people

decided to leave the center of the city by train from a main station,

and then symbolically found a new center of the city on its outskirt.

So it was a public gesture of exodus and attempt

to imagine the basis for cultural life anew.

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In the first part of my lecture in Belgrade (http://www.tkh-generator.net/sr/openedsource/from-biopolitics-to-necropolitics), January 2009, I introduced two concepts, de-linking and de-coloniality, implicating a certain cut with contemporary processes of capitalist institutionalization, control and subjugation. I can say that my proposal was and is a proposal for the intensification of a re-politicization of life. This re-politicization of life is a critical intervention capable of providing means, goals and forces for dealing with the present reality of global capitalism. Today, capitalism is clearly biopolitics, a radical institutionalization, control and subjugation of life, that needs, I argue, to be re-politicized, intensified, by changes brought with modes of management of life outside the First capitalist world, which is necropolitics.

Biopolitics is a horizon of articulating contemporary capitalist societies from the so-called politics of life, where life (it does not matter anymore, via Giorgio Agamben, if bare/naked life or life with forms) is seen as the zero degree of intervention of each and every politics into contemporary societies. But today capital’s surplus value is based on the capitalization of death (Latin necro) worlds. In the text “Necropolitics,” (2003) Achille Mbembe discusses this new logic of capital and its processes of geopolitical demarcation of world zones based on the mobilization of the war machine. Mbembe claims that the concept of biopolitics, due to the war machine and the state of exception being one of the major logics of contemporary societies, should be replaced with necropolitics. Necropolitics is connected to the concept of necrocapitalism, i.e., contemporary capitalism, which organizes its forms of capital accumulation that involve dispossession and the subjugation of life to the power of death. The necrocapitalist capturing of the social implies new modes of governmentality that are informed by the norms of corporate intensified rationality and deployed in managing violence, social conflicts, fear and the Multitude. No conflict that challenges the supreme requirements of capitalist rationalization is tolerable – economic growth, profit maximization, productivity, efficiency and the like. I argued that with this move Mbembe gave us a possibility to re-politicize biopolitics, saying that it is a time for its intensification as well as its historization.

In this second part of my lecture, I want to go on rearticulating, resuming, rewriting Santiago López Petit’s book, entitled Global Mobilization. Brief Treatise to Attack the Reality (La movilización global. Breve tratado para atacar la realidad) published in Spanish by Editorial Traficantes de Sueños, Barcelona in June 2009. Santiago López Petit is one of the key Spanish contemporary philosophical figures who was involved in workers’ struggles in the 1970s. Today, he participates in several political initiatives along with the groups Oficina 2004 and Espai en Blanc.

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