De(s)conexiones

No hay sorpresa o no debiera haberla. En Puerto Rico, hemos experimentado con movilizaciones digitales por años y cada una con sus diferencias y elementos comunes. Desde los shows de “la escena” autogestionados en Pulso Rock a finales de los 1990s y principios del 2000 hasta las huelgas de la iupi (UPR) de 2010-11, ya hay un “cúmulo” de experiencias en cuanto a comunicación, organización y movilización desde Internet. Del consumo a la articulación de movimientos sociales, Internet enmarca cómo respondemos e intervenimos en nuestra materialidad. Es mucho más que una mera herramienta –algo que una vez propuse sin matizar y de lo que hoy me distancio–, pues es un lugar de agenciamiento para sus usuarias así como territorio que informa cómo sus usuarias se identifican y son identificadas.

Félix Guattari on time and subjectivity

"In this conception of analysis, time is not something to be endured; it is activated, oriented, the object of qualitative change. Analysis is no longer the transferential interpretation of symptoms as a function of a preexisting, latent content, but the invention of new catalytic nuclei capable of bifurcating existence. A singularity, a rupture of sense, a cut, a fragmentation, the detachment of a semiotic content – in a dadaist or surrealist manner – can originate mutant nuclei of subjectivation. Just as chemistry has to purify complex mixtures to extract atomic and homogeneous molecular matter, thus creating an infinite scale of chemical entities that have no prior existence, the same is true in the 'extraction' and 'seperation' of aesthetic subjectivities or partial objects, in the psychoanalytic sense, that make an immense complexification of subjectivity possible – harmonies, polyphonies, counterpoints, rhythms and existential orchestrations, until know unheard and unknown. An essentially precarious, deterritorialising complexification, constantly threatened by a reterritorialising subsidence; above all in the contemporary context where the primacy of information fluxes that are machinically engendered threaten to lead to a generalised dissolution of old existential Territorialities. In the early phases of industrial society the "demonic" still continued to flower, but since then mystery has become a rarer and rarer commodity." (18-19)

Guattari, Félix. "On the Production of Subjectivity." In Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm, trans. Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis, 1-32. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Obedece o sufre

Imagen tomada de salonkritik

Si bien la atención de muchas y muchos, así como la de El Nuevo Día, ha estado dirigida a cómo Luis Fortuño y su campaña dejaron vencer su control sobre el dominio luisfortuno.com, no he visto comentario alguno sobre la apropiación del dolor ajeno, la mutilación corporal y la muerte como signos de una retórica autoritaria que se deleita ante las macabras maneras que se hace vivir/deja morir en Puerto Rico. 

Empire of Precariousness

A subject interrupts daily routine through an assault at a landmark building in New York City. Shots rang on the streets, 10 individuals were hurt and in split seconds media outlets storm the scene. A question jumps from the lips of those present and is channeled through the journalists piecing together of the puzzle: was it a terrorist attack? 

The media's insistence that what took place this morning in the Empire State Building is "not terrorist related" underlines the precariousness of being, the heightened sense of frailty that lies in this present. Life is terror and our existence is a struggle for refuge against fear and anguish. However, our sense of normality is mediated by convincing ourselves that we are safe. Safety, then, is only achieved temporarily as a process. It is a fiction we construct as an oasis in the midst of a desert, although this oasis is more precisely a mirage.