Micropolitical Associations

Resistance(s) and Collective Social Action

“…What we have stressed in this chapter is the need to also see the potential in minoritarian as much as majoritarian political activity. Micro -tactics of resistance have potential as they are grounded in immanent modes of association that are capable of inventing alternative forms of social interaction (Krause and Rolli 2008 ;Gibson -Graham 2006 ). It is part of the Ghandian philosophy of being the change you want to see, a daily process of prefi guration where revolution becomes part of everyday life (Franks 2003 ).…”

Planes of Immanence: Walking on Carl Andre's Art in Moments of Protest

“…86 What therefore seems decisive is less whether the activist works resulted in tangible forms of social and political change, and more the extent to which such works mobilized the ground in order to undermine the regimes of thought that support and strengthen forms of power both within and without the art world, broadly consistent with Deleuze and Guattari's conception of micropolitics. 87 While the actions of 2014-17 may have radicalized two core features of groundcentric work, one might be tempted to argue that such actions still reinforced the widespread tendency among art historians to position Andre's sculptures as the dominant reference point for the larger array of ground-based artworks that emerged during the late 1960s and 1970s. For not only did Andre's art provide the main catalyst for the protests; in several cases, his floor-based works also served as integral elements of the actions staged between 2014 and 2017.…”

Control Societies and Platform Logic

“…In so doing, we move from closed centralised institutional sites with determinate rules to an open-ended system of relatively decentralised 'smart' control, where all systems are relatively interoperable and put into communication with one another. 18 Control is a free-floating organisational logic, made possible by (but certainly not reducible to) digital information and communications technologies, the computer and the network. 19 A new form of power grounded in a particular kind of techno-social body, control sits at the intersection of neoliberal market deregulation on the one hand and digital technologies of information and communication on the other.…”