Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Proposal


Still some way to go with mobilities, but I sense I got somewhere. So back to the dilemma: identities - articulation- positionings - alterities - hierarchical systems of difference - subalternity - marginality - the trajectory from which positioning emerges. I've been stuck with probably the first line of my proposal: "The research examines three major theoretical issues: 1) the way systems of difference create and even constitute social inequalities by defining “normal citizens” and the “others”; 2) how places are the concrete sphere in which social tensions are produced and negotiated; and 3) how spatial mobility challenges state discipline and social control."

Maybe:
1) What if I dont look at the systems so much? I know we've been examining the conformation of the grids and the making of trajectories circulating the grids (geaprona), so it was not just about how to locate people in the grid but how both were produced. Massumi then is not totaly "discovering" sth none , but still we have a point it would be trajectories that lead to subject positions and the re-creation of the grid -the matrix-, but how see this trajectories? "other" forms of politics?
2) mmm probably i should say: how are places produced (lefebvre) as unstable detentions of movement, the location of temporary an "accidental" encounters, that produce an "through-together-ness", contemporaneous coexistence of difference (massey)
3) how is movement unfold, is there transformation during the translations inbetween places? what does happen to people when - while they move? what effects do trips have in the configurations of space? in which way are movements part of the spatiality of capitalism and how much do they exceed the capitals flow (people, money, commodities)?

2 comments:

rafaawa said...

no se entiende eso que te marque con rojo de massumi. tenes q arreglarlo.
en cuanto a la propuesta, creo que se puede pensar la tension entre grid (grossberg) y affect (massumi) como la tension entre quietud y movimiento que massumi propone siguiendo a spinoza (que ahora esta de moda, que pensara baruch reencarnado en vaya uno a saber quien?).
o sea, tanto la estructuracion y el posiocionamiento de sujetos en grillas de diferenciacion como el movimiento de fuga, el margen de maniobra que los actores tienen sean los que sean, esten donde esten, es lo que produce estas tensiones.
y vos a esto lo queres ver en casos particulares donde el movimiento de la gente los afecta, como sujetos tanto en su dimension "quieta" (dentro de ciertas grillas) como en la dimension "movil" (traspasados por el afectar-ser afectado). y esto visto a nivel social, no son efectos individuales sino efectos sociales de movimiento y quietud social.
algo asi.
creo.
r

Unknown said...

justo lei massumi el año pasado, ja!
cuchame, i think that the main problem is the tension between movement and structure (qué obvio, no?) but we never can get out of it
that is why strutured mobility is a very interesting grossbergian point (me encanta el spanglish!) and also the idea of sedimentación de sentidos so we can get into a place where movement and structure meet
a more grey queer sexy place to think
beso
lk