#whatever singularity

[doesnotequal]

Civil war not only brings collective elements into play, but it constitutes them. Far from being the process through which one comes down again from the republic to individuality, from the sovereign to the state of nature, from the collective order to the war of all against all, civil war is the process through and by which a certain number of collectivities that had not seen the light of day constitute themselves.

Michel Foucault

[shneevon]

Manner, then, is neither generic nor individual: It is an exemplar, in other words a whatever singularity….a manner of rising forth; not a being that is in this or that mode, but a being that is its mode of being, and thus, while remaining singular and not indifferent, is multiple and valid for all.

Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community

[irwonder]

Almaric interpreted the Apostle's claim that 'God is all in all' as a radical theological development of the Platonic doctrine of the chora. God is in every thing as the place in which every thing is, or rather as the determination and the 'topia' of every entity. The transcendent, therefore, is not a supreme entity above all things; rather, the pure transcendent is the taking-place of every thing.

Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community

[helge]

#normcore and the whatever singularity

Normcore doesn’t want the freedom to become someone. Normcore wants the freedom to be with anyone.

K-Hole, Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom

Does one ever escape alone from the prison of the Self?

Tiqqun, How is it to be done?

Agamben got it right all along: the fractal-like proliferation of dispositifs paradoxically begets desubjectivation. When everyone is constantly caught up in apparatuses of identification and classification, then being whatever, being without qualities, escapes from the terror of individuality, where marketing and security become indistinguishable, toward a common beyond predicates. In the future, the black bloc wears GAP.

[allslost]

good theory gives words to a murky and shared rage, or pays homage to that which escapes words altogether, or draws new lines of conflict and enmity. it resonates, not infects.

theory is unimportant and also i love it

[criminal-delirium]

Today human strike means refusing to play the role of the victim. Attacking it. Taking back violence. Imposing impunity. Making the paralyzed citizens understand that if they do not join the war they are part of it anyway. That when we are told it is either this or dying, it is always in reality this and dying. Thus, human strike after human strike, to reach the insurrection, where there is nothing but, where we are all, whatever singularities.

-How is it to be done? Tiqqun

[criminal-delirium]

Whatever singularity, which wants to appropriate belonging itself, its own being-in-language, and thus rejects all identity and every condition of belonging, is the principal enemy of the State. Wherever these singularities peacefully demonstrate their being in common there will be a Tiananmen, and sooner or later, the tanks will appear.

Giorgio Agamben The Coming Community.