From the reimaginig of the democratic dynamics by Chantal Mouffe to the transitional position of the State (social crisis, non-financeable, non-sustainabile) to a fully fledged delusional free market economy mobilising global capital, thus material and human resources, to micro-regulated socio-economic-systems based on micro-financial and intellectual transaction infused by an ideological empathy. A form of capitalist anarchism? The bending of the flows?
Maybe all this post-marxist psychoanalytic tendency is getting to my head. It is true though that any form of inefficiency is counterproductive to the flows or logics of capital. Not to say that capital and its supporting institutions are super-efficient, but efficiency is one of capitalisms mantras for growth. Anything that, as nongovernmental/regulatory bodies we can do, is to change from within. Affection, sleep, charity, stroking, slowing down, all of those are effective for a counteractive action against capitalism. There is a lot that I have found inspiring in Franco Berardi Bifos What is the meaning of Autonomy Today? It is perhaps, as he concludes, and drawing on Atelier d'Architectur Autogeree, that its meaning rests on setting the parameters that allow for alternative ways of living amidst the flows of capitalism, and its self-reproducing implementation of values.
Below a compendium of what I found most attractive:
"Globalisation does indeed have a material side, because industrial labour does not disappear in the post-industrial age, but migrates towards the geographic zones where it is possible to pay low wages and regulations are poorly implemented."
"While the market was idealised as a free space where knowledges, expertise and creativity meet, reality showed that the big groups of command operate in a way that is far from being libertarian, but instead introduces technological automatisms, imposing itself with the power of the media or money, and finally shamelessly robbing the mass of share holders and cognitive labour."
"Thus a new phase began: the groups that became predominant in the cycle of the net-economy forge an alliance with the dominant group of the old- economy (the Bush clan, representative of the oil and military industry), and this phase signals a blocking of the project of globalisation. Neoliberalism produced its own negation, and those who were its most enthusiastic supporters become its marginalized victims."
"Digital artisans, who felt like entrepreneurs of their own labour during the 90s, are slowly realizing that they have been deceived, expropriated, and this will create the conditions for a new consciousness of cognitive workers. The latter will realise that despite having all the productive power, they have been expropriated of its fruits by a minority of ignorant speculators who are only good at handling the legal and financial aspects of the productive process."
"On the other hand, productive labour increasingly inscribed in the cognitive functions of society: cognitive labour is starting to see itself as a cognitariat, building institutions of knowledge, of creation, of care, of invention and of education that are autonomous from capital."
"This is the effect of the flexibilisation and fractalisation of labour: what used to be the autonomy and the political power of the workforce has became the total dependence of cognitive labour on the capitalist organisation of the global network.This is the central nucleus of the creation of semiocapitalism. What used to be refusal of work has became a total dependence of emotions, and thought on the flow of information."
"So what? I have no answer. All we can do is what we are actually doing already: the self-organisation of cognitive work is the only way to go beyond the psychopathic present. I don’t believe that the world can be governed by Reason. The Utopia of Enlightenment has failed. But I think that the dissemination of self-organised knowledge can create a social framework containing infinite autonomous and self-reliant worlds.
The process of creating the network is so complex that it cannot be governed by human reason. The global mind is too complex to be known and mastered by sub-segmental localised minds. We cannot know, we cannot control, we cannot govern the entire force of the global mind.
But we can master the singular process of producing a singular world of sociality. This is autonomy today."
To me what its missing is that without falling into cinisism or romanticizing human kind, we need to ask, what provoked the collapse of the global mind, and what prevents it from recuperating?
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