<p>The destruction of law-based order is a result of a massive change in the mindset of political elites and ordinary people. Cynical (or sincere) claims that the existing social order enacts a hidden oppression correlate with active usage of raw power in military and trade wars and the rise of populist political expectation of dismantling the existing political establishment(s). But critique of the hypocrisy of the political regime of the Western (or global) system could lead to an alternative view on possible politics. This paper examines some of these approaches and shows (i) expectations of politics following from a morally driven critique of the capitalistic political order, (ii) a limitation of the proposed concepts of (or metaphors) of rhizome and nomadism (Deleuze and Guattari), new forms of work, escape, and homelessness (Hardt and Negri, and Virno), (iii) possible ways to avoid this limitation. The concepts of nomadism, escape, and so on, realize the moral expectation of politics to avoid the continuous reestablishment of the same social order, but they do not align well with reality. The real practices of nomadism, flexible work, and escape are better described not as a pure space beyond any social order, but as an overlapping intersection of multiple social orders. From this perspective, the only possible alternative is being simultaneously within two or more such states, switching between them and connecting people across these different orders. The only possible action that goes beyond political oppression is not to build a pure social state, but to care for others regardless of their social qualities.</p>

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Resistance from beyond the order: escape, nomadism, and opportunism

  • Andrey Zheleznov

摘要

The destruction of law-based order is a result of a massive change in the mindset of political elites and ordinary people. Cynical (or sincere) claims that the existing social order enacts a hidden oppression correlate with active usage of raw power in military and trade wars and the rise of populist political expectation of dismantling the existing political establishment(s). But critique of the hypocrisy of the political regime of the Western (or global) system could lead to an alternative view on possible politics. This paper examines some of these approaches and shows (i) expectations of politics following from a morally driven critique of the capitalistic political order, (ii) a limitation of the proposed concepts of (or metaphors) of rhizome and nomadism (Deleuze and Guattari), new forms of work, escape, and homelessness (Hardt and Negri, and Virno), (iii) possible ways to avoid this limitation. The concepts of nomadism, escape, and so on, realize the moral expectation of politics to avoid the continuous reestablishment of the same social order, but they do not align well with reality. The real practices of nomadism, flexible work, and escape are better described not as a pure space beyond any social order, but as an overlapping intersection of multiple social orders. From this perspective, the only possible alternative is being simultaneously within two or more such states, switching between them and connecting people across these different orders. The only possible action that goes beyond political oppression is not to build a pure social state, but to care for others regardless of their social qualities.