nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

How to grapple with the multiplicity of our experiences, how to speak(and write) across very different ways of living one and the same moment?What kind of resonances and disjunctions occur between our collectivebodywork and everyday experience? How to evaluate the effects of ourpractice – can nanopolitics subvert certain pathologies of “affective” and“immaterial” work by breaking down logics of efficiency and productivity?4/reflections and theorizations allow us to work towards different ways oforganizing our bodies in relation to care, labour, passion and listening, withinand beyond the current ways we reproduce ourselves (family and capitalism)and co-operate with others (work life, political spaces). Texts here go intobroader political, social and historical contexts, opening onto more philosophicalquestions of becoming, belonging, power and subjectivity.How can we think about the relation of nano- and micropolitics tomacropolitics? What is autonomy in a context where we’re all supposedto be entrepreneurs of the self? How might we listen and ‘hear’ powerin the affective and political forces expressed through the voice? Whatways of belonging and collective care/reproduction might we imagine incontexts of precarity and urban individualisation? If power today is lessdirect domination and more about putting bodies to work, how mightwe imagine a situation in which this compulsion is abolished?5/metabolisms and ecologies finally presents some ‘recipes’ or exercises thatopen towards ways of reproducing and feeding our bodies. Tuning in withplants and their growth, setting up shared urban cooking and eating spaces,making cakes… there are infinitely many practices of caring, commoning andcultivating that relate to nanopolitics. We found ourselves desiring a ‘doorto the garden’ through these years of collective work, much like some Italianfeminists of the 1970s who developed their militancy in the direction ofcollective practices of mutual aid and nourishment. So this section points topossible ways to link reproduction and ecology with our political practices.This leads to new lines of sensitivity and questioning:Beyond a politics of our own and other bodies, how to we relate to ourenvironments and the multiple forms of life that surround us? Whatintelligent processes can we engage with across different domains of life?If the work described here mostly concerns how our bodies are togetherin space, what possible nanopolitics of space and environments maylead on from there?13