Post-Deleuzian political thinking as an instrument of combat. Unapologetically queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist.
Quiver: New Weapons for Thought
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Post-Deleuzian political thinking as an instrument of combat. Unapologetically queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist.
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June 27, 2021
Quiver 9 - 6/7 - Exploits
<p>Reading Group: Exploits</p> <p>On June 7th, Quiver considered the topic of “Exploits.”<br> <br> How should we respond to what we oppose? Quiver considered the technical dimension of what is intolerable about the world, and how to locate vulnerabilities within it.<br> <br> The first reading was from a book that sets out to imagine radical politics after Deleuze’s suggestion that power has become networked – Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker’s “The Exploit.” Their book maps a world where even the oppressor has extensive networks at their disposal and looks for tactics for exploiting it.<br> <br> Our second reading pushed on the boundaries of technical analysis. In Simone Browne’s “Racializing Surveillance” from Dark Matters, we are provided a material history of surveillance technologies that existed far before computation and security caermas. Were not the overseers of plantations, actuarial accounts of chattle slavery, and the census technologies of surveillance?<br> <br> Our hope is that readers considered how technology is social before it is technical, leading them to pull at the threads of technology to find even longer tangled histories.</p>
June 27, 2021
Quiver 8 - 24/5 - Conspiracy
<p>Group: Conspiracy<br> </p> <p>On May 24th, Quiver continued with a discussion of “conspiracy.”<br> <br> In our disenchanted present, politicians boast about having the courage to speak truth while their opponents merely spread conspiracy.<br> <br> Quiver holds none of these pretentions. Its interests lie with myths, fictions, and conspiracies – not that they are all taken as good, but rather, as the raw material of aesthetics, practices, worlds, and lives to which we find ourselves inseparably connected.<br> <br> The first reading visited the anti-fascist use of ritual that went under the sign Acéphale, by way of the text “The Sacred Conspiracy” by Georges Bataille. Those interested in the topic may enjoy reading more from the book by the same name that collects many of the documents from the group.<br> <br> The second reading is Laura Riding’s “The Myth” from Anarchism is Not Enough. In it, she wonders how much of life is tied to a grand Myth. Why do people dedicate their lives to defending society, religion, or other social systems? How do some come to question such Myth? And why?<br> </p> <p><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/bd6512fc42e848400b052fcc6c55501bf0dcafbd1f20fba6ee6486fc9a47bc03/postulates-transparent.png" width="700" height="900"/>Updates<br> </p>
May 23, 2021
Reading Group 7 - Institutional Analysis
<p>On May 3rd, Quiver discussed “Institutional Analysis.”</p> <p>Our conversation centered on the work of Frantz Fanon.</p> <p>We provided two readings. The first contextualizes the work of Fanon within social psychiatry, the institutional psychotherapy movement, and his historical context (Caribbean, French, and North African).</p> <p>The reading visits Fanon during his work at the Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in Blida, Algeria. Inspired by thriving experiments in Saint-Albian led by the anti-fascist Tosquelles, Fanon sought to bring social, cultural, and political methods to the repressive environment of Blida-Joinville. He fought the prison-like atmosphere with a “disalienated psychiatry” through collective works, hands-on activities, group sports, a newsletter that explained treatments, and film club to breathe life into the space. But he considered it a failure, as in the deeply-segregated institution it only seemed to help the white patients and not the Muslim ones. After submitting his resignation, he was expelled from the country and moved to Tunisia where he linked up the Algerian combatants of the FLN.</p> <p>The second reading is an extended journal that chronicles Fanon’s time at Blida-Joinville in vivid detail. Fanon co-wrote it with Jacques Azoulay (whose dissertation he supervised) to outline the challenges of working at Blida-Joinville with the hopes of finding some theoretical insights. They describe the particulars of the stifling structure of the hospital, practical details of their experimental attempts to combat them, and an insightful post-mortem on why they feel they failed.</p>
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