Capitalism, work forces, politics, antisystematic movements

Seminar

This seminar forms part of the Political Imagination sub-section of the Museum’s 2006-2007 edition of the Program of Independent Studies (PEI). Its objective is to reflect on politics through studying the anti-systematic dynamics that have impacted and changed the structured behavior historically inherent in capitalism, and that have generated new forms of sociality and politicality, as well as hitherto unheard of models of introjection of common and collective interests in the constitutional mechanisms of institutional, administrative and public representation. In short, the goal is to analyze (1) how the anti-systematic antagonism is constituted and processed by the capitalist society’s structured network of domination, and (2) how constituent power processes of the dominated subjects within historical capitalism are generated. These problems pierce and constitute the very fabric of modernity and the immediate horizon of our postmodern situation.