The principle of unrest: Activist philosophy in the expanded field

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dc.contributor.authorMassumi, Brian
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-20T15:46:26Z
dc.date.available2018-03-20T15:46:26Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThere is no such thing as rest. The world is always on the move. It is made of movement. We find ourselves always in the midst of it, in transformations under way. The basic category for understanding is activity – and only derivatively subject, object, rule, order. What is called for is an ‘activist’ philosophy based on these premises. The Principle of Unrest explores the contemporary implications of an activist philosophy, pivoting on the issue of movement. Movement is understood not simply in spatial terms but as qualitative transformation: becoming, emergence, event. Neoliberal capitalism’s special relation to movement is of central concern. Its powers of mobilization now descend to the emergent level of just-forming potential. This carries them beyond power-over to powers-to-bring-to-be, or what the book terms ‘ontopower’. It is necessary to track capitalist power throughout its expanding field of emergence in order to understand how counter-powers can resist its capture and rival it on its own immanent ground. At the emergent level, at the eventful first flush of their arising, counter-powers are always collective. This even applies to movements of thought. Thought in the making is collective expression. How can we think this transindividuality of thought? What practices can address it? How, politically, can we understand the concept of the event to emergently include events of thought? Only by attuning to the creative unrest always agitating at the infra-individual level, in direct connection with the transindividual level, bypassing the mid-level of what was traditionally taken for a sovereign subject: by embracing our ‘dividuality’.en
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dc.identifier.citationMassumi, B. (2017). The Principle of Unrest : Activist Philosophy in the Expanded Field. London: Open Humanities Press. DOI: 10.26530/oapen_630732en
dc.identifier.doi10.26530/oapen_630732
dc.identifier.endpage147
dc.identifier.isbn9781785420443
dc.identifier.isbn9781785420450
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5668
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOpen Humanities Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesImmediations
dc.relation.urihttps://openhumanitiespress.org/
dc.rights© 2017, Brian Massumi. This is an open access book, licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution Share Alike license. Under this license, authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy their work so long as the authors and source are cited and resulting derivative works are licensed under the same or similar license. No permission is required from the authors or the publisher. Statutory fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Read more about the license at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectUnresten
dc.subjectMovementen
dc.subjectTransformationsen
dc.subjectActivityen
dc.subjectActivist philosophyen
dc.subjectNeoliberal capitalismen
dc.subjectMobilizationen
dc.titleThe principle of unrest: Activist philosophy in the expanded fielden
dc.typeBooken
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