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The skills required to play Soma games can produce new ways to perceiveand relate, discovering new forms of sociability. This process creates anenvironment in which a consensus decision making process starts in eachparticipant’s body, mind, emotions and feelings. Such approach breaks withthe traditional rationalist way of developing skills, where the mind is splitfrom the body and the individual removed from its surroundings. Consensusand autonomy are ethical proposals that require learning other skills than theones developed by capitalist societies.These are the reasons why I have been doing Soma as an anarchist experiment.Changing therapy into experiment, I’m trying to turn the sessions awayfrom an emphasis on neurosis (there’s something wrong with us) towards thegaining of skills (we can learn something new). Soma seeks to inspire skills tobuild horizontal relationships, skills that can transform the way we perceivethe world, re-building the body, its dwelling and livelihood.When we give up imperatives of ‘Truth’, ethics comes close to aesthetics,and science flirts with the arts. Soma can be approached both as an art formand as activism, envisaging a radical participatory, collaborative practice,where one can live singular experiences. And art and activism are pedagogicaltools because they can affect people to create unusual articulations andnew propositions.With this experimental format I’ve been practising, Soma can also be seenas a form of politically engaged live art that aims to challenge what we discovernormalised in our daily lives, and aims to extend this awareness to otherareas of our lives, to resist and to react against hierarchy and social injustice.Soma is inspired by anarchism and psychology, two wide fields of subjectsseparated by a sea of ideas. Linking these, Roberto Freire dared to dream abridge between them, with the possibility of fighting against oppression withmore than words and rationality. The politics of everyday life begins with ourprivate matters; when our feelings and emotions come together with our beliefsand ideology, we raise awareness and bring out the physical reality of ourbodies educated in the capitalist culture of fear and security.The original contribution of Freire’s Soma lies in its hybrid approach: amix of therapy and pedagogy, arts and science, politics and emotions. Thatwas what we also have been trying to do at <strong>nanopolitics</strong>: emotions are notimmaterial, subjective, something that just appear in the lack of reason, theyare bodies affecting themselves and others. Emotions can be at the same timecause and effect, result of changes and trigger of modifications, affects for alife less ordinary.102
Endnotes1. Roberto Freire (1990) Ame e dê vexame. Rio de Janeiro: Ed Guanabara.2. Roberto Freire (1988) Soma – uma terapia anarquista – volume 1 – A alma é o corpo. Riode Janeiro: Editora Guanabara. Roberto Freire (1991), Soma – uma terapia anarquista – volume2 – Prática da Soma e Capoeira. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Guanabara.3. For further information about Soma: somaexperiments.wordpress.com (English)and estudosdesoma.org (Portuguese)4. Unfortunately, his main books are not translated into English yet.5. Roberto Freire (1984) Utopia e Paixão – A politica do cotidiano. Rio de Janeiro: Ed Guanabara.6. Ibid. This quote is almost a premonition of the Health and Safety paranoia of nowadays,but it’s not related to the way financial capitalism has appropriated the word in its ‘risk-taking’culture.7. Roberto Freire (1987) Sem tesão não há solução. Rio de Janeiro: Ed Guanabara.8. It’s important to have clear that Freire was not talking about consumerism or capitalisthedonism of nowadays when he wrote about pleasure.9. Bruno Latour (2002) ‘How to talk about the body? The normative dimension of sciencestudies’ bruno-latour.fr/articles/article/077.html10. Ibid.11. Tim Ingold (2000) The perception of the environment – essays about livelihood, dwellingand skills. London: Routledge.103
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IndexpageIntroduction11collective p
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Towards a careful listeningexercise
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1/2/3/A map of this bookThis book h
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From bodies to booksTrying to rende
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collectiveprocesses
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mines our lives, work and politics
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through other experiences? And how
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care (not just individual but colle
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mal and natural that make life ‘e
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areas are erased by gated shopping
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Work, professionalization and the p
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on guidelines and protocols: whethe
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that we have been wandering these l
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does the common narrative of a grou
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also audiovisual recordings. We wou
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How is it that the awareness and lo
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translate into product. As an a pri
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complete freedom because everybody
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elated fears. ‘This works well if
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nano of the relationship between ou
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malleable understandings of geograp
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the purpose of doing this i know, b
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in single-file: Drawing out ideas f
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production pressure. i am all for p
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insurmountable barriers all around
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exerciseBody surfaces and boundarie
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A politics ofnetwork-families?Preca
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ways of relating that run counter t
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How to act in this world, how to ri
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The importance of the debt economy
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limitations: to give up the silly p
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a family, or a somehow older networ
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10. Interview with Nelly, London, A
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together. Draw a ‘conviviality’
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are less precarious than us. Capita
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Rather than a vocabulary of politic
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odies - we must develop our common
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of this as the general condition wh
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the individual as homo economicus,
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esistances of individual bodies des
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happens by way of a new externalisa
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If we look for a slogan that can de
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Endnotes1. Precarias a la Deriva.
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and the Permanence of Primitive Acc
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exerciseAn exercise indeproletarian
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men and things seem set in sparklin
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that radicality (the radicals playi
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merely reflect action received from
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to capture value, or the autonomy o
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privilege that underlie our speech.
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consensus based to saturation-based
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easy reception of linguistic conten
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materiality and characteristics, th
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tralian.com.au/national-affairs/mea
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ecologiesandmetabolisms
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Water it a bit. 3Water regularly, d
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Voku Pocu:making a people’s kitch
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Polenta cakes for friends andcomrad
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mix it with maple syrup. This is pr
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ResourcesIn this section we collate
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Campo Grupal, Buenos Aires (AR). Un
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Caring labour, an extensive archive
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Silvia Gil (2011) ‘Vidas precaria
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Freaksexual blog, good on sexuality
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Biographies:the nanopolitics group
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he is researching the recent histor
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mara ferreri has worked and studied
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