Suely Rolnik – författare

As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the capitalist system and makes it more perverse. This micropolitics involves the appropriation – what Suely Rolnik calls the “pimping” – of life, as it turns the life drive itself away from creation and cooperation and towards the deadening, destructive practice necessary for capital accumulation. This dynamic is the engine of what Rolnik calls the colonial-capitalistic unconscious regime. She also identifies the conditions necessary to fight against this regime – namely, a reappropriation of the life drive, the energetic basis at the heart of all life forms, human life included, and the principal source of extraction for capitalism.Drawing on examples from across the Americas, including Brazil and the United States, Rolnik examines the circumstances that have given rise to regressive, reactionary governments throughout the world. These circumstances include, at the macro level, an alliance between neoliberalism and extreme conservatism and, at the micro level, a crisis of the hegemonic subject in the face of the emergent empowerment of marginalized communities that practice other modes of subjectivation.   This crucial book by one of the most prominent intellectuals in Latin America today will be of great value to anyone interested in contemporary politics and social struggles.

As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the capitalist system and makes it more perverse. This micropolitics involves the appropriation – what Suely Rolnik calls the “pimping” – of life, as it turns the life drive itself away from creation and cooperation and towards the deadening, destructive practice necessary for capital accumulation. This dynamic is the engine of what Rolnik calls the colonial-capitalistic unconscious regime. She also identifies the conditions necessary to fight against this regime – namely, a reappropriation of the life drive, the energetic basis at the heart of all life forms, human life included, and the principal source of extraction for capitalism.Drawing on examples from across the Americas, including Brazil and the United States, Rolnik examines the circumstances that have given rise to regressive, reactionary governments throughout the world. These circumstances include, at the macro level, an alliance between neoliberalism and extreme conservatism and, at the micro level, a crisis of the hegemonic subject in the face of the emergent empowerment of marginalized communities that practice other modes of subjectivation.   This crucial book by one of the most prominent intellectuals in Latin America today will be of great value to anyone interested in contemporary politics and social struggles.

As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the capitalist system and makes it more perverse. This micropolitics involves the appropriation – what Suely Rolnik calls the “pimping” – of life, as it turns the life drive itself away from creation and cooperation and towards the deadening, destructive practice necessary for capital accumulation. This dynamic is the engine of what Rolnik calls the colonial-capitalistic unconscious regime. She also identifies the conditions necessary to fight against this regime – namely, a reappropriation of the life drive, the energetic basis at the heart of all life forms, human life included, and the principal source of extraction for capitalism.

Drawing on examples from across the Americas, including Brazil and the United States, Rolnik examines the circumstances that have given rise to regressive, reactionary governments throughout the world. These circumstances include, at the macro level, an alliance between neoliberalism and extreme conservatism and, at the micro level, a crisis of the hegemonic subject in the face of the emergent empowerment of marginalized communities that practice other modes of subjectivation.   

This crucial book by one of the most prominent intellectuals in Latin America today will be of great value to anyone interested in contemporary politics and social struggles.

As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the capitalist system and makes it more perverse. This micropolitics involves the appropriation – what Suely Rolnik calls the “pimping” – of life, as it turns the life drive itself away from creation and cooperation and towards the deadening, destructive practice necessary for capital accumulation. This dynamic is the engine of what Rolnik calls the colonial-capitalistic unconscious regime. She also identifies the conditions necessary to fight against this regime – namely, a reappropriation of the life drive, the energetic basis at the heart of all life forms, human life included, and the principal source of extraction for capitalism.

Drawing on examples from across the Americas, including Brazil and the United States, Rolnik examines the circumstances that have given rise to regressive, reactionary governments throughout the world. These circumstances include, at the macro level, an alliance between neoliberalism and extreme conservatism and, at the micro level, a crisis of the hegemonic subject in the face of the emergent empowerment of marginalized communities that practice other modes of subjectivation.   

This crucial book by one of the most prominent intellectuals in Latin America today will be of great value to anyone interested in contemporary politics and social struggles.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat das Interesse des Kunstbetriebs an Archiven mehr und mehr zugenommen und sich zu einem regelrechten »Archivierungszwang« entwickelt. Suely Rolnik beschreibt in ihrem Text die Wurzel dieser Tendenz in der Konzeptkunst der 1960er und 70er Jahre, mit Fokus auf den Ländern Lateinamerikas, die von Militärdiktaturen beherrscht wurden. Eine Ursache hierfür sieht sie in der »kolonialen Verdrängung«, die wie die Diktaturen ein tiefgehendes Trauma in diesen Ländern hinterlassen und zu einer Spaltung zwischen dem Poetischen und dem Politischen geführt hat, fortgeführt im Missverständnis der »offiziellen« Kunstgeschichte, die die dort vorzufindenden künstlerischen Praktiken im Sinne einer »politischen« oder »ideologischen Konzeptkunst« deutet. Vor diesem Hintergrund bricht der Wille hervor, sich den Archiven erneut zuzuwenden und die Verschmelzung der poetischen mit den politischen Kräften zu reaktivieren.Die Psychoanalytikerin, Kuratorin und Kulturkritikerin Suely Rolnik lebt in Brasilien. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat das Interesse des Kunstbetriebs an Archiven mehr und mehr zugenommen und sich zu einem regelrechten »Archivierungszwang« entwickelt. Suely Rolnik beschreibt in ihrem Text die Wurzel dieser Tendenz in der Konzeptkunst der 1960er und 70er Jahre, mit Fokus auf den Ländern Lateinamerikas, die von Militärdiktaturen beherrscht wurden. Eine Ursache hierfür sieht sie in der »kolonialen Verdrängung«, die wie die Diktaturen ein tiefgehendes Trauma in diesen Ländern hinterlassen und zu einer Spaltung zwischen dem Poetischen und dem Politischen geführt hat, fortgeführt im Missverständnis der »offiziellen« Kunstgeschichte, die die dort vorzufindenden künstlerischen Praktiken im Sinne einer »politischen« oder »ideologischen Konzeptkunst« deutet. Vor diesem Hintergrund bricht der Wille hervor, sich den Archiven erneut zuzuwenden und die Verschmelzung der poetischen mit den politischen Kräften zu reaktivieren.  Die Psychoanalytikerin, Kuratorin und Kulturkritikerin Suely Rolnik lebt in Brasilien.     Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch