nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

together. Draw a ‘conviviality’ line between you and those people you hangout with a lot. It’s of course up to you to define what ‘a lot’ is: this is part of thechallenge here, and useful to discuss with others. When do you consider arelation one of friendship, love, or mutual dependency, and how do you definethose in relation to each other? Since you have limited knowledge about thepractices of others, and since relations constantly change, the map you makewill inevitably be partial: a snapshot of right now.4. You may want to draw circles around people who are in the same groups(political groups, workplaces, family...) to visualise the balance betweengroups.5. (individually or in group) To take this beyond your immediate personalnetwork, you may want to map relations of care and support between groupsalso. On the back of your sheet, make a map with names of groups you participatein. You can go beyond autonomous collectives with a proper name(‘black panthers’) to also include institutionally affiliated groups of people (‘mystudents’; ‘the service workers union’) as well as diffuse and partly anonymousgroupings (‘my neighbours’). You can also include your ‘family’ as defined bylineage of course. This will bring out the relations of mutual support that organisethe social around you.The diagram you produce is a temporary snapshot of some relations: youare visualising your social-affective world as you perceive it right now (notwhat it can or will be). To imagine possible futures, identify desires and talkthrough them together!197