nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

Activism and the life of groupsThere are ‘we’s’ that are already pre-established, that articulatethemselves on the basis of an understanding of the world and of history.We, the exploited, for instance, expresses that there is a category ofthe exploited that transcends subjects. While that’s sure on the level oftheory – that we might well conceive of a conjunct of beings affectedby the phenomenon of exploitation – has no effect at all in everydaylife, where in order for this concept to make sense, subjects wouldhave to gain a level of comprehension that allows them to imaginethemselves symbolically. If in turn an environment emerges withinwhich my encountering other people becomes part of a shared practice;if my recognition of the other is established through the sharing ofan experience through which we both process changes; if in finding anew path, my friend is beside me; then this ‘we’ will be steady in theseevents, it will have been born out of encounters wherein each one of theparticipants will have named the other as compañero, giving her/himan existence s/he didn’t have before. 1David Vercauteren, Thierry Müller et Olivier ‘Mouss’ Crabbé (2007)Micropolitiques des groupes, Fourcalquier: Éditions HB. Glossaire de conceptset outils pour penser la collectivité politique, écrit a partir de l’experience duCollectif Sans Tiquet en Belgique. En ligne en Francais: micropolitiques.collectifs.net. Publicado en Español por Traficantes de Sueños (Madrid, ES),y en Pdf: traficantes.net/index.php/content/download/24284/233080/file/micropoliticas.pdfGruppe X/Anarchistische Föderation Berlin (2011) Game over? Liebernicht! Politisch aktiv, ohne kapputtzugehen. Ein Booklet mit Ideen, Tippsund Uebungen fuer Leute und Gruppen, die ihren Aktivismus nachhaltigergestalten moechten. afb.blogsport.de/images/PAOKG_Doku_web.pdfLaboratorio de Analisis Institucional, Rosario (AR). Un colectivo trabajandodinámicas de institución y grupo, con muchos textos en su sitio web.lair.a.wiki-site.com/index.php/Portada#textos1 Francisco Ferrara, (2003). Más allá del corte de rutas: la lucha por una nueva subjetividad.Buenos Aires, La rosa blindada.268