nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

and palpable to us on a daily basis. The apparatuses of accumulation haveshifted from an industrial world (based on waged labour and in which professionalactivity found itself clearly separated from the private sphere) to aperhaps more troublesome reticular world in which social life is composedof a successive multiplication of temporary but recoverable encounters andconnections with different groups. In this new dynamic of the city, it is theactivity of persons and things that is used to measure their greatness. In theindustrial city activity was con-fused with work and the active (subjects) parexcellence were those who had a waged job which was stable and productive.On the contrary, activity in the contemporary city overcomes the oppositionsbetween work and not-work, between the stable and the unstable, betweenwaged and unwaged, between what is calculable in terms of productivity andthat which, not being measurable, escapes all evaluation.At the very centre of this maelstrom, in our collective spaces we foundthat this ‘aimless’ being another way allows us to create forms and fields ofcomposition for the production of our common lives and the production ofknowledges and territories that are, not only very dear to us, but fundamentalon a political level. But at the same time, we realise that this production,denominated ‘immaterial’, is also a value producing machine which has confrontedus with giving account of (dar cuenta) and counting (hacer las cuentas)the value produced. Thus questions arose around what to do with thediffuse and profuse things that we produce, about their forms of preservationand the contradictions of the different formats that legitimate, make visibleand give more or less value to that immaterial production.crédito-credibilidad-constancia 16This reflection in relation to devices of preservation, circulation and visibilisationof our productions, has also brought us to the question of those formatswe choose – or reject – for sharing with others and making mobile ourcollective experiences and knowledges. About how to make them nomadic sothat they can enjoy contagion, complicity, sampling and fusion with similarand known others, and those yet to be discovered and met. Our encounterwith the Other-Institution has confronted us with a post-industrial logic ofproduction and recognition, which imposes a specific direction through entryinto the grammar of tangible projects. We face a choice which suggeststhat in order to maintain the contours it is essential to accept a single routefor the becoming-project. The silhouette of a group-that-meets would seemto gain meaning only in terms of its interiority which is private, reproductiveand in this sense quasi-domestic, invisible and lacking in significant impact.51