Papers by José Manuel Bueso Fernández
The coordinates of Global ’North’ and ’South’ lose their meaning under conditions of full disloca... more The coordinates of Global ’North’ and ’South’ lose their meaning under conditions of full dislocation of geopolitical tectonic plates. In Bagdad, París, Río, New Orleans, North and South coexist in the same territories. Cities and even whole nations may shift in the Earth’s crust from one day to the next. Detroit, Greece and Spain used to be in the ’North’ and are now in the ’South’. Shifts and cross-hatching are not limited to space, but also occur along temporal planes- unsuspected geometries link past, present and future forms of dispossession and resistance. In fact, in the rhizomatic spacetime of our synchrony-city the past is never dead, it’s not even past; and the future is always already here, only unevenly distributed. As we become Blacks of Different Colours, in a whole neoliberal constellation of new, unevenly disempowered subjectivities of multiple kinds, our hope is symbolised precisely by the Black Jacobins who overcame Homo Sacer’s vulnerability and revolted in Haiti
En época de dislocación geopolítica total, ¿cómo saber qué es Norte o qué es Sur? Bagdad, París, ... more En época de dislocación geopolítica total, ¿cómo saber qué es Norte o qué es Sur? Bagdad, París, Río, New Orleans tienen barrios que son Norte y barrios que son Sur. Ciudades y países enteros pueden pasar de ser Norte a ser Sur de la noche a la mañana. Detroit, Grecia y España eran Norte y ahora son Sur. Si los espacios están entrecruzados, también lo están los planos temporales: geometrías insospechadas unen formas de desposesión y de resistencia pasadas, presentes y futuras. De hecho, en el espacio-tiempo rizomático de la sincroni-ciudad, el pasado no es pasado porque no ha terminado de pasar, y el futuro no está ’por-venir’ porque su huella ya está aquí. Convertidos en los negros de nuevas esclavitudes, en una constelación de subjetividades desposeídas en formatos desiguales en los circuitos de la precariedad neoliberal, nuestra esperanza está precisamente en el símbolo de los Jacobinos Negros, que dejaron de ser Homo Sacer y se alzaron en las plantaciones de Haití
An exploration of the politics of rehearsal in the context of neoliberalism
Arte y Políticas de Identidad, 2019
Arte Y Politicas De Identidad, 2010
Arte y Políticas de Identidad, 2019
Why is it easier to imagine the End of the World than the End of Capitalism? As a contribution to... more Why is it easier to imagine the End of the World than the End of Capitalism? As a contribution to the (as yet) hypothetical discipline of Apocalyptology, which would be devoted to studying Capitalism's multiple connections with the End of the World, this essay seeks to answer that question through a historical and critical analysis of what American Survivalists call Teotwawki as a meta-narrative framing for a variety of political discourses, ranging from Survivalism itself to the insurrectionary anarchism of the Invisible Committee, or the anarcho-primitivism of the Deep Ecology Movement and some accounts of the Anthropocene. Ever since the end of the 1970s, in a context where Capitalist Realism polices the boundaries of collective imaginaries, pre-empting any alternative to the Neoliberal order, end-of-the-world plots and tropes have been displacing end-of-capitalism narratives by redirecting the desire for radical social change towards the imagery of catastrophe and collapse and away from visions of revolution.
An exploration of the politics of rehearsal in the context of neoliberalism
The coordinates of Global ’North’ and ’South’ lose their meaning under conditions of full disloca... more The coordinates of Global ’North’ and ’South’ lose their meaning under conditions of full dislocation of geopolitical tectonic plates. In Bagdad, París, Río, New Orleans, North and South coexist in the same territories. Cities and even whole nations may shift in the Earth’s crust from one day to the next. Detroit, Greece and Spain used to be in the ’North’ and are now in the ’South’. Shifts and cross-hatching are not limited to space, but also occur along temporal planes- unsuspected geometries link past, present and future forms of dispossession and resistance. In fact, in the rhizomatic spacetime of our synchrony-city the past is never dead, it’s not even past; and the future is always already here, only unevenly distributed. As we become Blacks of Different Colours, in a whole neoliberal constellation of new, unevenly disempowered subjectivities of multiple kinds, our hope is symbolised precisely by the Black Jacobins who overcame Homo Sacer’s vulnerability and revolted in Haiti.
Apocalypse happens all the time and is no longer a time, but a place. Catastrophes are no longer ... more Apocalypse happens all the time and is no longer a time, but a place. Catastrophes are no longer singular events, but geographical structures with their own spatial and juridico-political configuration: disaster-spaces that confine what Agamben calls Homo Sacer. Their territorial counter-poles are the maximum security, luxury enclaves of the world’s new sovereigns in Carl Schmitt’s sense: the global super-rich, who live outside
state regulations in high-tech neoliberal utopias symbolised by Dubai. These terminal spaces are not Foucauldian heterotopias, nor can their complexity be captured by other outmoded theoretical vocabularies. Today’s capitalism is anisotropic: it generates and interconnects different types of spatiality, with different laws of movement, for which only some forms of science fiction and contemporary art offer valid tropes.
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Papers by José Manuel Bueso Fernández
state regulations in high-tech neoliberal utopias symbolised by Dubai. These terminal spaces are not Foucauldian heterotopias, nor can their complexity be captured by other outmoded theoretical vocabularies. Today’s capitalism is anisotropic: it generates and interconnects different types of spatiality, with different laws of movement, for which only some forms of science fiction and contemporary art offer valid tropes.
state regulations in high-tech neoliberal utopias symbolised by Dubai. These terminal spaces are not Foucauldian heterotopias, nor can their complexity be captured by other outmoded theoretical vocabularies. Today’s capitalism is anisotropic: it generates and interconnects different types of spatiality, with different laws of movement, for which only some forms of science fiction and contemporary art offer valid tropes.