nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

engage with or (re)create? Write down some notes on how you would liketo live and enjoy. How can you become able to live that way? Who couldyour allies be? Remember to consider people you don’t know. What wouldbe the new speed of life, what qualities and pleasures are available outsideconsumer culture? What enjoyments and life-desires keep you stuck in beinga proletarian, in work, debt, and consumerism?What do you want to do and make?Make a list of things you would like to be able to do or make. Where can youlearn this, from what situations or whom? And what skills and knowledges canyou teach and share? Many or most really great things you can only do withothers, so how to find and take time and space for that? Of course we need tolearn skills we can sell for a wage, but some pedagogies and skills are designedto lead only towards that: can you hack into or avoid those? What processes oflearning and what knowledges and know-how will help you pursue the life youwant to live, the relations you want to make, and resources you want to have?What relations of living and making do you want tocreate with others?What ways of relating would be conductive for you developing your life andabilities with others? How can you build trust, solidarity and cooperationaround learning, living, and the doing of what you want to do with others?What relations would you have to change or break out of? How would yourcollectives or communities stay open to the world, and how would you avoidbecoming functional to the economy, as a charity, and NGO, a harmlesscommunity project? What interests, habits and institutions will slow you in yourcommon projects, and how can you dodge, change or destroy them?What resources do you need to do that?Given how you would like to live and make, what means, buildings, resources,technologies, lands would you need to be able to do so? How would you gain accessto those things? Pooling together, building, buying, squatting, occupying, stealing,taking by force? What kind of collective, movement, networks or organisationswould you need to be able to do that, and to defend and extend your gains?Think big, and think through social inter-connections and interdependencies.But remember that abolishing our basic condition means embarking upon theunknown, in an inventive collective process full of struggles and joys.222