In the the first approach, exemplified by Sylvan Lazarus (but also including Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière), subjectivation is defined as a break from any object, or objective determinations. It is an entirely internal break, defined without any relation to objective determinations or conditions. In contrast to this the post-autonomist tradition generally defines subjectivation through the labor process and its transformation. As labor becomes more cooperative, more social, taking on the conditions of its own organization it becomes the precursor to revolution. Aspe argues that this is not as simple economic determinism since the perspective of Negri and others hinges on the concept of living labor as both antagonistic to capitalist command and integral to capitalist value. As Aspe writes, The working class is the support of a irreducible division of he community: it is determined politically (as non-capital) before being determined economically (as part of the process of capital). Or again: political composition is not the effect of technical composition; subjectively political composition is primary. .... Simondon stresses the metastable conditions of any individuation, any collectivity. The conditions that produce individuation (or the conditions for subjectivation) are not causes that operate in a linear manner but tensions and unstable relations. As Aspe writes, A political subjectivation is constructed from the amplification of fragments and relations of the previously disparate collective.What Aspe suggests is that Simondons philosophy of individuation offers a way out of the opposition between transformative event and imminent teleology, a way to think transformation as something based on the tensions animating the present.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:35:33 +0000
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