nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

exerciseAn exercise indeproletarianisationMoney commands our time and energies. Most of us don’t control the factories,technologies, land and resources we need to produce the necessities of life.So we have to work for those that do, or become housewives, criminals orcharity recipients. Work is pretty exhausting, especially if you really throwyourself into it. The body usually resists the most committed mind. So, wespend most of our time working, resting after work or preparing for work. Whenwe work, we produce not for our common needs, but for the owners, accordingto their priorities: More and more. That’s why they pay us, and also why theysometimes “have to let us go”. In short, we produce all that puts us to work orout of work. Faster and faster.Some call this condition proletarian, and surely most of us live it, alwaysdifferently. And we find ways to make it not-shit, “not too bad”, “ok” and “fine”, alot of the time. If we can do that we can do more. Let’s try once more to abolishthis silly condition.One way to begin that movement is to begin what we want and what wecan do. So ask yourselves these questions, or better yet, talk them throughwith friends, lovers and comrades.how do you want to live?How can you find the time and mindspace – alone or with others – to figureout how you want to live? Social spaces always produce or close down certaintastes, desires and sensitivities; what kinds of social spaces do you want to221