nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

Biographies:the nanopolitics group formed in London in early 2010, around adesire to think politics through and as embodied experience. As an opencollective they have organized monthly movement, theatre and bodyworkbased workshops, as well as discussions and interventions in the contextof social movements. The UK student and anti-austerity movements havebeen an important context across which this practice was articulated andtested. Nanopolitics has facilitated playful reflection as well as support acrossdifferent experiences of militancy, work and everyday life, with the desire tomake new interconnections between those experiences. As such, the groupworks with a variety of body-based methods with the main aim of undoingalienated, individualised and disembodied forms of relationality and practice.Questions of subjectivity, collective process, organising and relationships areat the centre of this practice. nanopolitics.noblogs.orgadrià rodríguez works on design and filmaking, and he is interestedin the importance of the imaginaries for the social movements. He isnowadays working on the Kairós Poject, a video documentary archive aboutthe social movements that are springing up throughout the Mediterraneanprojectkairos.net. He is also part of the militant research group ObservatorioMetropolitano de Barcelona stupidcity.net, which is part of the Fundaciónde los Comunes fundaciondeloscomunes.net. As a designer is part of theStudio Combi studiocombi.infoamit s. rai likes to walk in cities. He has been affected by the kinetic energiesof radical practices of care and embodiment in New York, Mumbai, andLondon. He teaches within and against the corporate university, developing a277