Urban panics and black holes. Ambiguities of deceleration in the time of financialization
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.”