Nanopoetics : some fragments from our notes
How do policy and professionalization affect our daily lives and bodies?
Could nanopolitics be about mapping out the coordinates of some of the things that make us feel unwell/uncomfortable and sharing the practices (pedagogic/therapeutic/caring/political/etc) we have in order to act on this discomfort?
Definitions of politics are implicitly gendered through the way politics is traditionally defined as the distinction between public and private
Challenging boundaries – how can we find the balance between pushing boundaries and creating or establishing boundaries?
Boundaries: duality between safety and risk; uk health and safety rubbish; kids can’t play here anymore. How much do we need safety and how much do we need risk. The polarisation is complex, how much do we want to be safe and not give up something to risk…?
How to help others to facilitate the creation of boundaries, e.g. activist burnout
Rhythms of engagement with one another in collective
Aggression/anger – the ability to say no and set boundaries, as a political moment
Loneliness in the everyday – noticing how much we miss to be touched etc. People use all kinds of things to fill this need/empty space/lack of intimacy etc.
Often the ‘nanopolitics’ idea of bringing together politics and therapy leads to an individualized form of self-care rather than a collective care that goes with a political praxis
Sociability and collectivity appear ok in the street as long as they are linked with consumption or some marker of identity like religion or sport
Noticing how full of borders the city is. Fences everywhere.
The norms producing the harmonious monotony of our voices
As you grow up you learn to shape your voice in social spaces – there’s social limits to how you can use your voice – we have a lot of control over our voices, we restrict them a lot in our daily lives and different coded social spaces
The frustration of not being able to speak in a meeting, not managing to speak
Vibration seems to produce pleasure
We can speak of love+sex, love+politics, sex+politics – but how do we speak of all the 3 together: love, sex and politics – that’s a challenge
Fragility is the key to contemporary immunology – Francisco Varela: the cell never stays strong, fortified, solid in its identity, it’s never closed – rather the cell is permeable and that is what gives it strength – it is affectable
talk with the eyes closed enlarge the listening camp
be vulnerable turn the day into a sharable subjective possibility
antropofagia
This is a new configuration of movement, how to relate if you’re not in a group?
The complex social, affective and organisational composition of the kettle, that’s something we learn from, very interesting space, perhaps all the more so because we are stuck in it together – but then, how can we transpose that complex composition to other spaces?
How, if at all, do we identify with the institution (uni) at this point? Where are we coming
from when we go from the uni to these struggles? What may we want?
How will the experience of the past month reflect when everyone is back with their families at Christmas….?
The social jacket you make a relationship wear
Stretch and moan and shake
Acknowledge them when you meet them
How to not use shame in teaching?
When did we block? Why did we block?
intimacy simulation programmes