Chapter 1: Subjective Figures of the Crisis ... - Negri in English

aspects of exploited and bureaucratized labor in the capitalist era,
but it can also be a living kairos that traverses and subverts those
conditions of work and exploitation, a kairos of resistance.
When you bend under the weight of debt, when your
attention is hypnotically glued to your screen, when you have
made your house into a prison, you realize how much the
capitalist crisis individualizes and strains the human passions.
You are alone, depotentialized. But as soon as you look around,
you see that the crisis has also resulted in a being together. In the
crisis, indebtedness, mediatization, securitization, and
representation designate a collective condition. There is no
alternative, certainly; we are on the decks of the Titanic, and this
impoverishment and reduction of the power of singularities
make our life into a gray indifference. But we are here together.
There is a kairos of resistance as well as a kairos of community.
We must struggle to liberate ourselves from these
conditions of impoverishment, miser}', and solitude. But how can
we begin The depotentialized subject is a figure that has been
separated from what it can do, as Deleuze says in his reading of
Nietzsche: "Une force separee de ce qu elle peut." We must
discover a force that reconnects action to being together.
Indignation, for example, which expresses individual suffering,
alludes even in its solitary resistance to being together. It
becomes singular, because becoming singular, in contrast to
becoming individual, means finding once again the subjective
force in being together. A singular subjectivity discovers that
there is no event without a recomposition with other
singularities, that there is no being together of singular
subjectivities without rebellion. A process of singularization is
thus incarnated: a self-affirmation, a self-valorization, and a
subjective decision that all open toward a state of being together.
All political movements are born this way: from a decision of
rupture to a proposition of acting together.
Invert the Debt
The process of subjectivation begins with refusal. I won't.
We won't pay your debt. We refuse to be evicted from our
houses. We will not submit to austerity measures. Instead we