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Transformation Marathon Nomadic Moves and Waves of Change 22 Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti These are strange times, and strange things are happening. Times of ever-expanding yet spasmodic waves of change which engender the simultaneous occurrence of contradictory effects. Times of fast-moving changes which do not wipe out the brutality of power relations, but in many ways intensify them and bring them to the point of implosion. Living at such times of fast change may be exhilarating, yet the task of thinking critically about these changes and representing them adequately in order to engage productively with the contradictions, paradoxes and injustices they engender is a perennial challenge. How to account for fast-changing conditions is hard work; how to escape the velocity of change is even harder. Unless one likes complexity, one cannot feel at home in the twenty-first century. Transformations, metamorphoses, mutations and processes of change have in fact become familiar in the lives of most contemporary subjects. They are also vital concerns, however, for the scientific, social, cultural and political institutions that are expected to manage them. Amidst accelerating and convulsive change, many traditional points of reference and age-old habits are being re-composed, albeit in contradictory ways. At such a time, more conceptual creativity is necessary and more discursive imagination is needed to fuel the conceptual leaps across inertia, nostalgia, aporia and other forms of critical stasis induced by our historical condition. Solidarity and a sense of global justice require adequate theoretical backing. ‘We’ need to learn to think differently about the kind of subjects we have already become and the processes of deep-seated transformation we are undergoing. If the only constant in the third millennium is change, then the challenge lies in how to think about processes, rather than concepts. We need to embrace complexity as a core value in both theoretical and cultural practice. This has implications that fly in the face of established academic conventions. In spite of multiple sustained efforts by theorists and practitioners alike, the mental habits of linearity and objectivity persist in their hegemonic hold over our thinking. It feels more familiar to think conceptually rather than in terms of processes and fluid flows of data. The vital force of ideas therefore tends to get frozen into fixed and substantive modes of thought: sedentary, identity-bound and selfreplicating. Inward-looking thinking breeds negativity and paranoia. Surely the point is not to persevere in who we are, but rather to cultivate what we are capable of and willing to become: the task ahead is how to 23
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