°Credit unions
While I preoccupy myself with other writings, go read Thiago on the diffusion of interest rate subjectivity throughout the unions in AU. (Related: Werner Bonefeld’s “The Politics of Debt”.) And an article by Pete on the slated changes to employment laws in AU. [Some background to the peculiar disposition of unions in AU]
In the “Postscipt to the Societies of Control”, Deleuze remarked that “Man is no longer man enclosed, but man in debt.” Well, he was quite wrong to assume that discipline and control can be so easily distinguished, I think. The enclosures have acquired the flexibility of zones; control is, more often than not, experienced as the enclosure of a seemingly interminable present. Nevertheless, the force of these remarks remain:
One of the most important questions will concern the ineptitude of the unions: tied to the whole of their history of struggle against the disciplines or within the spaces of enclosure, will they be able to adapt themselves or will they give way to new forms of resistance against the societies of control? Can we already grasp the rough outlines of the coming forms, capable of threatening the joys of marketing? Many young people strangely boast of being “motivated”; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It’s up to them to discover what they’re being made to serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the telos of the disciplines. The coils of a serpent are even more complex that the burrows of a molehill.
I am not so sure that the unions were unequivocally against discipline. In any event, lest there be any sense that the current situation can be plotted in linear terms:
There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
A, would you be so kind as to drop me an email so I can ask you a question? thx.
Matt [July 24, 2005 @ 7:05 am]