nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

mal and natural that make life ‘easier’ for our bodies... This undoing maybe therapeutic: not in the sense that necessarily makes us feel better, orcures us once and for all, but in the sense that it allows us to get overtraumas and repressions. To undo the traumatic contractions, defensivepatterns, imposed schemes of normality, some pharmacological knowledgeis needed, and everything can be a drug: touch, words, silences, etc.Can we undo our subjectivities and institutions with this playful ethics ofdrugging?How can we learn to support, sustain and take care of each other?How can we bring the lightness and intensity generated through the exercisesand games of nanopolitics sessions into our everyday life, into a takingcare of each other that becomes light, into a becoming common of ourlives, starting from their more basic aspects like eating, sleeping, drinkingand breathing? Can we learn from nanopolitics how to practice a life together,a different life from the one we know, which is often so centredon our individual selves? How can we move from exercising a proximityof our bodies to exercising a proximity of ourselves, a getting close andimplicated with each other which would differ from both the black holesof personal and exclusive commitments and the shallow utilitarianism ofa networking modality? How to take seriously the ecologies of the social,environmental and psychic by investigating a fourth dimension, that ofsensation, movement and experience?Spaces of our lives, dimensions of nanopoliticsThe practice of nanopolitics is always situated. To speak of how we concretelymove our bodies in nanopolitics, to speak of our tools, techniques and experiences,we need to speak of where and when, in what spaces, social andphysical, and at what times.London, LondonMany of us have come to live and work in London, from more or less far ornear. London is a city with its particular intricacies and monstrosities, producingparticular bodies, yet it seems depressingly like any other mega-city.Like the city itself, the London body is often fragmented, reactive, irritated,torn and restless. London spreads widely over physical space, with an unaffordablecentre emptied out by corporations’ headquarters and commercialisedfor tourism, a cold, blank and opaque ‘City’ dedicated to finance and29