nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

tity, with the aim not just to flexibly shift from one identity to the other, butto remain always open to the possible, to any situation. These are techniquesof deterritorialization. What characterises capitalism’s deterritorialization?‘Empowerment’, ‘Self-help’, ‘Personal Development’... highly ambivalent termsand practices.As often with nanopolitics, we try to appropriate some powerful tools,away and against the principles of capitalism and its framework of profitability.Yet copyright signs and high training fees make certain methods less accessibleto politically radical purposes than others. Grinberg draws on shamanicand sometimes ancient knowledges and practices from Israel, Latin Americaand beyond, as well as other approaches such as that of Wilhelm Reich. It hasbeen created in the 1980s as an assemblage of different techniques. We toowant to reclaim techniques and practices, and their traditions, to create somethingelse – beyond work and profit. A bodily relation with fear, as a state offorce, the undoing of bodily patterns constituted by traumas and stratifiedfear, through an attentiveness and openness (without end) to what can happenbeyond identity across our bodies: free Grinberg for all!!!These reflections come a posteriori however. At the end of the session,we gather to talk and feed back as usual. What’s the politics of the Grinbergmethod? Not much comes out of our discussion unfortunately. We are all verytired, some of us have been crying all day, others are upset.Tonalities of relation 13You say tones for colours as well, and also you have intonation andtonality in music. […] It’s about frequency and vibration so it’s also in asolid material, when it’s tense or relaxed. […] It’s also when the passagebetween two different states becomes visible; in music tonality, is stilla metric of a spectrum, a gradient; it’s a different type of skin, at somepoint it’s not skin anymore. […] Quality shifts as well as quantity. […]We got very close to each other, and then the siren started. Our friendhad broken one of the barriers of the university space. She opened alocked door, by a simple push of a red button. The alarm went off. TheNigerian security guy was furious and saying: you are not getting backin here, locking us out from our space and our stuff … the fire brigadewas on the way… standing outside barefoot, arguing harshly aboutsecurity, tone and pitch skyrocketing[…] once back inside, we had thisdiscussion about exclusion, and suddenly all these brains came back in.How do you understand the tonalities of neo-colonialism, between race,borders and wage labour? 14 159