nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

traversed by a preference for a ‘pedagogy of the question’. 12 We like to discoverall that fits and all that is opened in the vast territory contained between twoquestion marks. 13 We also consider that this caminar preguntando (‘asking wewalk’ or ‘walking and wording’ zapatista) has allowed us to define what thesewriting hands have in common, as well as our peculiarities and differences.It was through the difficulty of ‘agreeing’ that the complexities of questions,sometimes forgotten or normalised by the speed in which we inhabit our collectiveprocesses, have been emerging. From the disagreements between ourdifferent ways of giving accounts of a common narrative, our first questionshave seen themselves interrogated and transformed by new questions formedin flight. It is thus that this exercise of writing has become a process of searchingand producing a culture of the antecedents that run through us. How doour bodies join together in collective processes? How do we want to continuejourneying together? How do we think about and narrate our journeys? Continuingwith these trails and cartographies of question marks, we would liketo end here by sharing some of the ways in which we sense that our questionshave been emerging and transforming along the way.We consider that the questions we ask ourselves, as much in our groupjourneys as in the context of this article, do not find themselves in the ‘inner’space of the group or in the ‘individual’ experiences of each of us, but in thevery specific transversality of a city model that corresponds to a particularpolitico-economical context. This sentence from Franco Ingrassia comes tomind when giving an account of the complex peculiarity of this context:contemporary markets can be thought of as war territories of allagainst all, as territories where the defence actions of a fictional‘internal’ comfort are combined with a reverse general hostility towardseverything that may be considered external. 14At the beginning of this text, in the section ‘arriving from Another Place’,we gave an account of those other spaces from which we arrived in order tocongregate in the esquizo group, and of a certain sensation of overflow linkedto those spaces. Excess and saturation of extremely interesting meetings andevents to go to, things to learn, contacts to initiate and maintain, agendas tofill and carry out, spaces and people to meet. All of this leads us to the continuedtask of producing assemblages and dis-assemblages and situates us inthe inevitability of thinking about how to traverse these modes of producingrelations and territories and how to collectively reinvent them.We see ourselves charged by and located in the centre of a hurricane calledBarcelona in which the emergence of the ‘new spirit’ of capitalism 15 is evident50