violence

notes and thoughts on Zizek

# the ideology of competitive individualism

# liberal conception of violence is limited to subjective forms of violence

# there are forms of objective or systemic violence

# Objective violence is precisely the violence inherent to the ‘normal’ state of things

# Sometimes, doing nothing is the most violent thing to do

# love is an essential component of revolutionary thought and action, as out of love for others alongside solidarity, the desire for the overthrow of repressive socio-economic systemic machinery is born

# the information revolution is in the process of creating radical social formations capable of challenging the system of global capitalism (not Zizekian but Negri's and Hardt postion that Zizek critiques unfairly)

# ‘Leftist political movements are like banks of rage. They collect rage investments from people and and promise them large-scale revenge, the re-establishment of global justice,’

# ‘There is no longer a global rage potential.’

how does one go about effecting large scale changes to the systems which inflict violence on so many peoples and their environments?

such a question then cannot be answered if there is no understanding of the behavior of complex and dynamic systems... old leftish always supporting the idea that through rage and massive social mobility the system could collapse... Deleuze offers a meaningful reading on complex dynamic phenomena and he points out that any small change in a dynamic system could disturb the whole system and bifurcate it to another attractor. Therefore he moves ontologically to the level of the virtual where the actual emerges. At the same time he proposes that a rhizomatic engineering and a machinic opening of this level could cause major differences in the production of the singular. Deleuze though warns us.... that the smooth space is not suffice to liberate us. We need to embrace the risk and the responsibility of our experimentation to cautiously deterritorialize the system in order to be able to ride its creative force. Thus, we could say that Deleuze proposes an activism that is about to experimental exploitation in order to reveal the afordances of any system, to hack its rules and to drive it away from its habitual patterns. The recursive and relational nature of those models could amplify the differenciation to differentiation. from molar to molecular.

to be continued, elaborated, reworked and transformed...