aut-op-sy message, Re: [AUT] strategic investigation

2009/10/23 Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not sure if I can post PDFs to this list, but the other day I was just reading

Benjamin Fincham 2006; 6; 187 Qualitative Research

Back to the ‘old school’: bicycle messengers, employment and ethnography

But that's obviously about bike messengers more so than pro-cyclists... so not sure if it's helpful... let me know if you would like me to send you the PDF...

Cheers
Stevphen

On 22 Oct 2009, at 11:03, martin hardie wrote:

thanks Stevphen I found the team colours stuff today

im interested in applying this stuff (I think I have been sub consciously) to my work with pro cyclists ...

2009/10/22 Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Uhm... are you asking me whether the book I put together is any good? I'd like to think so... the entire book can be downloaded as a PDF from here: http://www.constituentimagination.net (it's under the section marked 'Contents')

From this quote here it sounds much like the notion of co-research and militant investigation that starts from the workerist tradition, but more in the vein developed by folks like Colectivo Situaciones and other taking a more micropolitical slant on it in recent years...

Perhaps take a look at the Team Colors stuff on this, which I'm guessing you already have...

cheers
stevphen

On 22 Oct 2009, at 10:15, martin hardie wrote:

Anyone got suggested readings on what H&N have termed strategic investigation in Commonwealth?

Stephen: should I get hold of this? Constituent imagination: militant investigations//collective theorization By Stevphen Shukaitis, David Graeber, Erika Biddle, AK Press

Hardt M & Negri A, Commonwealth

p.p.126 ff

The kind of strategic investigation we have in mind resembles, on the one hand, the traditional Marxist "factory investigation" that inquired into the conditions and relations of workers with a combination of sociological detachment and political goals, but remained fundamentally external to the situation in the hands of the party intellectual elite. It also resembles, on the other, the kind of interactive production of knowledge common to the "teach-ins" of the 1960s, which was indeed conceived as a kind of ethical practice entirely invested in a common fabric of the social situation, but one which was not effectively mobilised as political action. Closer to the strategic investigation we have in mind is a third conception, which incorporates elements of these two but goes beyond them: Foucault's use of the notion of dispositifs that is, the material, social, and affective, and cognitive mechanisms active in the production of subjectivity. Foucault defines dispositif as a network of heterogeneous elements orientated by a strategic purpose:

"By dispositif I understand a sort of formation, let's say, whose primary function, at
a given historical moment, is to respond to a demand. The dispositif thus has an eminently
strategic function (which means that) it involves a certain manipulation of relations of force,
a rational and concerted intervention in those relations of force, either to develop them in
some direction or to block them, stabilise and utilise them. The dispositif is thus always
inscribed in a power relation, but always tied to one or several limits of knowledge, which
derive from it and, at the same time, condition it."

Foucault's notion of strategic knowledge allows to conceive the collective production of the common as an intervention in the current relations of force aimed at subverting the dominant powers and reorienting forces in a determinate direction. The strategic production of knowledge in this sense implies immediately an alternative production of subjectivity.

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Deakin University (Geelong Campus)
Pigdons Road,
Waurn Ponds,
Victoria, 3216,
Australia.

Tel: + 61 (0) 3 522 71307

http://newcyclingpathways.blogspot.com/

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http://info.interactivist.net

"Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master’s rule." - subRosa Collective

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Re: [AUT] strategic investigation - co-research etc

Stephen: should I get hold of this? Constituent imagination: militant investigations//collective theorization By Stevphen Shukaitis, David Graeber, Erika Biddle, AK Press