| sebastian on Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:23:59 +0100 (CET) |
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> > On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Eric Kluitenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Sebastian, all, > > Good questions - though I have not much to say about the (‘radical’?) left. But the schizo-analysis question is interesting: > >> On 12 Mar 2020, at 09:21, [email protected] wrote: >> >> - What is the perspective on coronavirus from the vantage point of >> Schizoanalysis? > > Probably a lot of points could be made, a.o. about the way in which existential territories are compromised by the mental distortions of (over-)reactions to the viral spread. However, for me the most interesting issue that has emerged is to think this through transversally across the ecological registers that Guattari has identified all the way back in 1989, i.e. the material environment, the social relations, and the individual universes of reference (subjective experience). What is missing in the model that Guattari proposed in The Three Ecologies, in general, but even more pressing right now, is the fourth register of nonhuman experience. > <...> Thank you for this! And with regards to "sceptical by default", I must say that my own relation with Gaia is not all sunshine, really. In fact, it is entirely parasitcal - and the same would hold true for my vegan, non-jetsetting, healthy lifestyle-living alter ego. I also don't think that Gaia is in trouble. She can withstand impacts, eruptions and explosions that would reduce all of us to dust in milliseconds. Capitalism does not threaten the planet. It doesn't even threaten the survival of the human species. What it threatens is the future of human civilization - this long history of murder, rape and destruction into some 20th century branches of which (say: logic, physics, cinema, music) i'm quite invested in, actually. I'm all for blue skies, and I'd be happy if the reduction in non- essential travel, pointless work meetings or boring conferences became permanent. But does this virus create a revolutionary situation? I don't see it. Maybe I'm looking the wrong way. I'm not a historian, so I don't know what usually happens when people are instructed to avoid all social contact. "All the reasons for carrying out a revolution are present. None is missing. [...] But it is not reasons that make revolutions, it is bodies. And the bodies are all in front of screens." It also all really depends on where you're speaking from. It think a lot about others, but they are not speaking here, and nobody else can speak in their place. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: