nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

nano of the relationship between our bodies that this everyday internalisedmechanism of relation operating at the level of subjectivity becomes thinkableand perceivable. It is a very different model of relationality what we are experiencinghere in this workshop. Carla is offering us, with her anatomicalexplanations and through the BMC exercises, a different model of relationality,which does not leave subjectivity, or the relations between us, untouched.Carla’s way of practising this ‘centering’, that really seems to be an undoingand shifting, is a way of ‘multiplying our capacity of perceiving and sensing’,as she puts it. What we’ve done here is a training for us to get away fromourselves as individual subjects, away from our bodies as we have learnedto conceive of them and perceive them, away also from the hierarchy ofuprightness: the thinking head above, closer to the sky.Desubjectivation offers the possibility for the body to become somethingelse, other than ‘human’, escaping the imposition that ‘humanity’ carries withit: presiding over other species, putting a western patriarchal culture aboveall, holding the head up high with the intent of saving or helping others. Wedevelop a different relation amongst what we usually perceive as our mind,with its capacity of thinking rationally, of perceiving things from the insideor the outside, and ourselves as thinking and feeling. We can think with thebody and sense with the mind: this implies a recomposition of our bodiesaccording to a different geography, a geography unknown to our selves. Thebody becomes other than what we see with our eyes, we start to perceive itand perceive everything else in many other ways. We experience the possibilityof composing something anew using our bodies together, in a merging ofdifferent bodies, the possibility of collectively being something else than thesum of ourselves, something else than a unitary fusion of bodies. Our bodiestune around each other: we expand an ability of organizing forces, intensities,and other things on the verge of the perceptible.Neoliberal desubjectivation is sickening, it ends up stiffening the shell ofparanoid bodies: it’s all about myself, and how much can I integrate myselfin a main-stream to assert myself (subjectification as becoming a subject), orhow much can I protect myself from devastating “pressures” (desubjectivationas a shrinking self).With this workshop desubjectivation becomes something that overcomesthe opposition between an inside and an outside: I lose myself and I gain everythingelse – the possibility of multiple conjunctions. This other desubjectivationis always multiple, plural, never reduced to the individual. This is theimportant difference, between a desubjectivation of the individual, becomingflexible, fragmented, fractured, and always fucked up, staying by itself (at themost it is just connected, through a networking system, with other subjects),162