https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Wed, 06 May 2020 11:28:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-temporal-modality-of-financialization-and-the-indebted-subjectivity-searching-for-ruptures/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:51 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-temporal-modality-of-financialization-and-the-indebted-subjectivity-searching-for-ruptures/ Continued]]> The Folding of the Indebted Subjectivity. Outline of a Derivative Govermentality of Debt. In the present paper we attempt to map some lines of the individual relation of the debtor with the creditor in contemporary capitalism, the impotent presence of guilt and the possibilities of empowerment that the appropriation of financial type tactics brings to individuals and households. Beyond the influential and important work of M. Lazzarato, that which has to be investigated is the adventures of the subjects, the differential lines of subjectivity, in its meeting with the recodified logic of debt politics in the era of financialization.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/%cf%87%cf%81%ce%ad%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%87%cf%81%cf%8c%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%cf%87%cf%81%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b9%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%af%ce%b7%cf%83%ce%b7/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:51 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/%cf%87%cf%81%ce%ad%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%87%cf%81%cf%8c%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%cf%87%cf%81%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b9%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%af%ce%b7%cf%83%ce%b7/ Η χρονικότητα της χρηματιστικοποίησης και η επανακωδίκωση της λογικής του χρέους. Κριτική της ηθικής του χρέους και της παραγωγής της χρεωμένης υποκειμενικοτητας, (Μ. Lazzarato, D. Graeber). /Στοιχεία του «καθεστώτος ιστορικότητας» μετά τον παροντισμό. /Οι αντιδιαγωγές/αντιπειθαρχίες των ‘χρεωμένων’ υποκειμένων.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-panics-and-black-holes-ambiguities-of-deceleration-in-the-time-of-financialization/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:50 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-panics-and-black-holes-ambiguities-of-deceleration-in-the-time-of-financialization/ Continued]]> In the text I embark upon an effort to ground the possibility of a presence and new forms of fascism of our times in the process of financialization and to the ambiguities of the deceleration as a form of the tactics of resistance (or/and lines of flight) in the permanent acceleration of financialization (financialization as a procedure of permanent crisis). The work of the process of deceleration is ambiguous: on the one hand it is relates to the desire for another governmentality –“not to be govern like this” to the limit of non-governmentality, and on the other a blockage is possible, the capture of this desire in the black holes of fascism.“This temporal discontinuity of resistance, its unexpected acts, the vulnerability of its potential, and recently, its reterritorialization in parliamentary procedures, puts the critical project in a permanent starting position, or as if it is in a permanent starting position. As a result of this, the practice of critique remains constant while at the same moment it is constantly in a position of emergence. A position, which we can conceive in contiguity to the financial capital (as a “Body Without Organs”), and which is related to the production of a post-crisiac, fluctuated subject, in a position of impotent prudence and prediction of its life events. […] But we probably have to avoid this unanswered, questioning of unifying principle. Maybe it’s now time to accept the ambiguous power of the obscure position where the body as a victim of financial capital is a body of strength where capital anchors itself. Because this obscure position is the power and the weakness of the poor. Maybe now it is time to accept that the critical attitude of our time demands or presupposes inconsistency, the rupture with reasons and outcomes of action.”

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/media-and-the-economic-crisis-of-the-eu-the-culturalization-of-a-systemic-crisis-and-bild-zeitungs-framing-of-greece/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:41 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/media-and-the-economic-crisis-of-the-eu-the-culturalization-of-a-systemic-crisis-and-bild-zeitungs-framing-of-greece/ Continued]]> This article critically studies the hegemonic discursive construction of the EU’s current (2012) economic crisis, as it is articulated by political and economic elites and by mass media. The study focuses on the political economy of the particular crisis and through the critical concept of reification, the study emphasizes the hegemonic naturalization of the economic crisis by the “free market” economistic ideology. The article problematizes the positioning of Greece as the “crisis epicentre” in Europe, understanding Greece as a scapegoat and as a laboratory where political strategies of capitalist restructuring of the EU are performed. Through the frame analysis of Bild-zeitung’s headlines on the coverage of crisis-struck Greece, the article discusses a) the “culturalization” of the crisis and the diversion from a structural public debate on the global economic crisis b) the disciplinary function of crisis’ publicity, related to social control and the production of new, neoliberal social subjectivities c) the alienating effect of the culturalist crisis discourses to transnational publics, resulting to the misrecognition of the ideological and structural reasons of the given crisis, the misrecognition of the effects of the crisis and crisis-politics in people’s lives, the misrecognition of popular socio-political struggles in countries worse struck by crisis politics, and the eclipse of transnational solidarity and identification to the common issues that European people in particular are facing.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/intertextuality-and-in-political-jokes/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:40 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/intertextuality-and-in-political-jokes/ Continued]]> The aim of the present study is to explore the interplay between intertextuality and humor in contemporary political jokes. The intertextual allusions included in such texts involve (con)texts projected as ‘shared’ knowledge by joke tellers. However, they may render joke comprehension a demanding task, thus excluding potential joke recipients from the ingroup joke tellers attempt to construct. At the same time, the intertextual presuppositions of political jokes may foster the ideological alignment between joke tellers and joke recipients, as they are based on specific evaluations of sociopolitical affairs, which need to be accepted by recipients wishing to establish coherence. The data examined here comes from a large corpus of the Greek jokes on the current financial crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/anger-management-and-the-politics-of-crime-in-the-greek-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:23 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/anger-management-and-the-politics-of-crime-in-the-greek-crisis/ Continued]]> In 2008, Greece was plunged into recession. A full-blown financial crisis developed in 2009, from which point onwards the Greek economy shrank with persistence unmatched by current comparisons. The onset of financial crisis triggered a major realignment in the configuration of political power in the country, with a collapse in support for the left pillar of a centrist two-party system that had been in place for over 30 years, and the entry to Parliament of an extreme far-right group with a reputation for engaging in physical violence. The political ramifications of the crisis have continued to evolve under the socio-economic pressures of the ongoing recession, the austerity measures adopted to meet the conditions of successive bailouts, and the asymmetrical impact of both upon the country’s citizenry.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/carceral-moderation-and-the-janus-face-of-international-pressure-a-long-view-of-greeces-engagement-with-the-european-convention-of-human-rights/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:21 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/carceral-moderation-and-the-janus-face-of-international-pressure-a-long-view-of-greeces-engagement-with-the-european-convention-of-human-rights/ no abstract

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/crime-and-economic-downturn-the-complexity-of-crime-and-crime-politics-in-greece-since-2009/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:20 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/crime-and-economic-downturn-the-complexity-of-crime-and-crime-politics-in-greece-since-2009/ Continued]]> Description and explanation of the relationship between economic downturn and crime have to date been limited by the narrow scope of criminal activity characteristically selected as a focus by pertinent criminological scholarship. Efforts to examine the relationship have overwhelmingly approached it through the prism of common property and violent offences, or, and to a lesser degree, white-collar crime. As a consequence, appreciation has been impeded of the existence and heightened political significance of diverse and complex connections between a wider array of forms of criminality during times of economic downturn. To demonstrate the value of such connections to the study of the relationship between economic downturn and crime, we draw on the contemporary experience of crisis-hit Greece, where the political importance of associations between corruption, common property and violent offences, and illicit political violence, has made them indispensable components of any account of the linkages between economic downturn and crime in the Greek context.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/debt-society-psychosocial-aspects-of-the-greek-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:16 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/debt-society-psychosocial-aspects-of-the-greek-crisis/ no abstract

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/dispatches-from-the-greek-lab-metaphors-strategies-and-debt-in-the-european-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:16 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/dispatches-from-the-greek-lab-metaphors-strategies-and-debt-in-the-european-crisis/ Continued]]> This field note is a first attempt to reflect on the choreography of the European crisis from a psychosocial perspective. It focuses on the situation as it has been unfolding in one of the debtor countries of the South, namely Greece. After mapping a variety of metaphors, repertoires and strategies used to energise blame and guilt and thus legitimise the neoliberal policies implemented, it elaborates on the multiple functions of debt, articulating a biopolitical approach with Freudian and Lacanian theorisations of the superego. It also inscribes within this framework the current mutations in political domination.

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