anonymity, indifference mutual coexistence of experiences, cultures and worlds:
This is what attracts us in the metropolis. The possibilities it offers people to make their own life, outside the regulated area of \u200b\u200bthe community, family, suffocating in the province.
urban space ready to welcome its endless folds and stretch marks, all life queer, different, eccentric, with its promises of meetings, pleasures, of latent potential.
The identity of the metropolis that can not be hybrid or multiple, at least superficially, if it wants to retain the diversity that build fueling its accumulation of wealth and income. The desiring subjectivity is the raw material of social and cultural production.
At the same time keeping this unruly heap is always changing. The economy of the city desiring
is complex and constantly escapes political control at any point, such as representation and representation unit. We produce subjectifications policies, insubordination radicals, and the figures of production material and immaterial are not, rise, claiming their share of social production, in terms of redistribution of income, power and real citizenship. I devices, economic, social, cultural, sexual and adjustment of the flows, they must ensure the exploitation and control and are forced to
constantly being reshaped in order to avoid the breaking point.
Viewed from the perspectives of gay-lesbian-trans, the metropolitan area is the only habitable, livable, passable. It is here where social flows, experiences and want to generate new interactions, pulse, face, short circuit, allowing temporary reversals and reversals, the deployment of sexuality is rimodula and constitute new bodies, gender, sexuality, forms of life and love.
It is no accident, however, that the city, this city in particular, embodies the desire of the metropolis to the lives gay, lesbian and trans and non-compliant individual. In the seventies
Bologna opened in exemplary form the question of individual subjectivity and collective as a surplus of desire: a desire to open the entire society, as the possibility of transformation of self and the world.
The refusal of knowledge, of social and sexual roles imposed were in the middle of a decade that he sent in a crisis mode of production of the subject, a form of life legislation. For some it was the discipline of the factory for other hierarchical organization of knowledge, some for the patriarchal family and marriage, for others compulsory heterosexuality. After breaking
culminated in '77, the reaction sedentary, identity, owner, has isolated the movement desiring desertified and the city, reimponendo the cohesive model and time-consuming red Emilia.
movement, even gay-lesbian-trans-queer, or is back under the plaster in the spaces allocated, leaving the area to experience a free trial that has at least expanded forms of social identity and sexual living.
But it has not stopped some in the metropolis desiring, the daily work of deconstruction of the dominant imagery and affirmation of new life styles.
Even today, the coexistence of a diffuse intellectuality, around the university and the artistic and cultural production, the size of research that characterizes them, allow individual and collective experimentation that is induced, or at least contained and tolerated within certain margins.
The limit is set from time to time by the ability of bone resorption and development system: a trans-lesbian-gay community is tolerated in so far lined up in the places responsible for its circulation (clubs, saunas, discos), a some underground until fauna is limited to liven up the art scene, does not attack the cultural aggregations are related to student academic or research paths for cultural and information and the presence migrant works as a cheap labor force, without requiring you to alter the white and Catholic identity of the city, all these together, and others competing in the rental market and agencies.
Even some radical forms of self-management space, such as community centers, sometimes worked as a reservoir of containment of youth needs and niches of incubation of new trends and lifestyles, to be tested later on the market. Finally, the illegal markets and submerged: rents in black, drug smuggling, exploitation of prostitution, to feed the other side, interwoven and complementary to clean the city's economy. In the current crisis
Bologna, this flexible balance is broken, has prevailed the temptation to rule by fear, an instrument typically used to restore order unruly social sectors, railing against the whole city.
Today, the contraction of the urban space is, rather than a push from below to hold for the unwinding of that model Emilia already foreshadowed by the '77 and the inability of the political class to read the face of the changing metropolis, crossed by global flows. The twist
security-produced hysterical hardening of power, triggers and rides the deep anxieties and fears of all.
The fear of the metropolis, to become a metropolis, the request to restore order, security, identity loss, are incited and fueled by pretending not to know that there is no going back, a picture postcard image fifties.
Suddenly, indifference and strangeness of all to everyone becomes afraid of the other, the foreign, the other that comes over me, attacking me, rob me, or at least disturbs me with his presence inappropriate. In a game of distorting mirrors so that, for example, the gay community is singled out as a threat to traditional identity of the city, and at the same time, along with the freedom of women, used as a fetish of democracy, against Islamic fundamentalism suspected migrants. The security-driven
has shortness of breath and short ends early for r the same capitalist production flows. As was the case in some American citizens who, after a couple of years of zero-tolerance policy against illegal Mexicans, have reversed the trend for the economic crisis that had triggered their expulsion.
The city where we live precariously and produce, can not adapt to time under this mask Strapaese of the province, with the mayor, prefect and bishop in procession behind the icon of the Blessed Virgin.
Better to act now and take advantage of this vacuum of imagination to look past the grotesque parade of national folklore and try to glimpse the cities to come,
opening the laboratory of the conflict for its establishment.
0 comments:
Post a Comment