philosophy; community
The Community doesn't exist and it never has.
Community is what exists; shared and experienced between those in contact.
Community is the experience of joy (power, even) found between bodies who are affected towards a particular way. One might say that community is found where two bodies are affected by the same form-of-life.
Never The Community of those who are there, always Community as potential, constantly being realized.
Each time community tries to solidify itself as a subject, as The Community, it finds itself met with its own impossibility, and develops techniques to ward off its own impossibility.
philosophy; community
@exiliaex i loved donald glover in community
philosophy; community
@exiliaex Relationality, though ephemeral and particular, is typically a more interesting line of inquiry than any “thing in itself”. Things (and subjects) are spectres of relationships. Both the community and the individual are excellent examples of this approach.
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philosophy; community
@exiliaex Reminds me of ‘Joyful Militancy’ by Nick Montgomery & carla bergman https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joyful-militancy-bergman-montgomery
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@NickGiraffe oh, i can see why, we're both pulling quite heavily from similar stuff, especially tiqqun's Introduction to Civil War.
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@NickGiraffe thanks for sharing this piece with me! i'm very interested!
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@exiliaex np! I got a lot out of it. The “further reading” list and citations alone made it worth it to me.
You can also get it from AK Press btw
philosophy; community
Can we imagine the loss of community that must've occurred to produce the man that spoke of The Human Community? An abstract universal, found nowhere but in the way we decide to treat each other and the rest of life.