When the Common Ground Seems Shattered
Self-enclosed individualism and partial relationality in creative practice
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Sarah CharalambidesResumé
Surveying different modalities and contradictions inherent to conceptions of commonality and solidarity in the arts, this article explores how cultural producers can resist essentialist configurations of political identity and practise ‘commoning’ within post-Fordist neoliberal capitalism through the notion of partial relationality.
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Barchiesi, F., 2012. ‘Precarity as Capture: A Conceptual Reconstruction and Critique of the Worker-Slave Analogy’. UniNomade. 10 October 2012. http://www.uninomade.org/precarity-as-capture/.
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Bishop, C., 2004. ‘Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics’. October 110: 51–79.
Boltanski, L. and Chiapello, E., 2007. The New Spirit of Capitalism. London: Verso.
Brown, W., 2015. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone Books.
Butler, J., 1992. ‘Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism”’. In Feminists Theorize the Political, edited by Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott, 3–21. New York ; London: Routledge.
———. 2009. Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? London: Verso.
Butler, J and Athanasiou, A., 2013. Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Casas-Cortés, M., and Cobarrubias, S., 2007. ‘Drifting Through the Knowledge Machine’. In Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization, edited by S. Shukaitis, D. Graeber and E. Biddle, 112–26. Oakland: AK Press.
Casas-Cortés, M., 2009. ‘Social Movements as Sites of Knowledge Production: Precarious Work, the Fate of Care and Activist Research in a Globalizing Spain’. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.
Claycomb, R. M., 2003. ‘(Ch)Oral History, Documentary Theatre, the Communal Subject and Progressive Politics’. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 17 (2): 95–122.
Esposito, R., 2010. Communitas : The Origin and Destiny of Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Federici, S., 2011. ‘Feminism and the Politics of the Commons’. The Commoner. http://sduk.us/silvia_george_david/federici_feminism_politics_commons.pdf.
Ferreira da Silva, D., 2016. ‘On Difference Without Separability’. In 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva, edited by J. Rebouças and J. Volz, 57–65. São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.
Florida, R., 2004. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books.
Foti, A., 2005. ‘MAYDAY MAYDAY! Euro Flex Workers, Time to Get a Move On!’ European Institute for Progressive Cultural Politics. April 2005. http://eipcp.net/transversal/0704/foti/en.
Gilbert, J., 2014. Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism. London: Pluto.
———. 2018. ‘Notes Towards a Theory of Solidarity’. Jeremygilbertwriting (blog). 1 May 2018. https://jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com/notes-towards-a-theory-of-solidarity/.
Gill, R. and Pratt, A., 2008. ‘In the Social Factory? Immaterial Labour, Precariousness and Cultural Work’. Theory, Culture & Society 25 (7–8): 1–30.
Haraway, D., 1988. ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’. Feminist Studies 14 (3): 575–99.
———. 2004. ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’. In The Haraway Reader, 7–45. New York: Routledge.
Harvey, D., 2004. ‘The “New” Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession’. Socialist Register 40: 63–87.
Lorey, I., 2015. State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. London: Verso.
McRobbie, A., 2015. Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries. Cambridge; Malden: Polity Press.
Nancy, J-L., 2000. Being Singular Plural. Meridian. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Neilson, B. and Rossiter N., 2005. ‘From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Labour, Life and Unstable Networks’. Fibreculture Journal, no. 5 (January). https://doaj.org/article/2fec0dd762c84125b9b0721862a45ee4.
Precarias a la Deriva, 2003. ‘First Stutterings of “Precarias a La Deriva”’. Caring Labor. April 2003. https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/precarias-a-la-deriva-first-stutterings-of-precarias-a-la-deriva/.
Rossiter, N and Lovink, G. eds., 2007. MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Saltman, K. J., 2018. ‘“Privilege-Checking,” “Virtue-Signaling,” and “Safe Spaces”: What Happens When Cultural Politics Is Privatized and the Body Replaces Argument’. Symploke 26 (1): 403–9.
Secomb, L., 2000. ‘Fractured Community’. Hypatia 15 (2): 133–50.
Shukaitis, S., 2012. ‘Precarious Politics and Recomposing the Radical Imagination’. In Maps of Precariousness: Forms and Processes, Social Imaginaries and Subjectivities, 231–52. Bologna: I libri di Emil.
———. 2019. Combination Acts: Notes on Collective Practice in the Undercommons. New York: Minor Compositions.
Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., 2015. ‘The Factory of Individuation: Cultural Labor and Class Composition in the Metropolis’. South Atlantic Quarterly 114 (3): 535–52.
Spivak, G. C., 2006. In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics. New York: Routledge.
Standing, G., 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Stavrides, S. and De Angelis, M., 2010. ‘Beyond Markets or States: Commoning as Collective Practice; A Public Interview, Athens, July 2009.’ Edited by An Architektur. An Architektur, no. 23: 4–26.
Strathern, M., 1991. Partial Connections. Savage: Rowman & Littlefield.
Tarì, M and Vanni, I., 2005. ‘On the Life and Deeds of San Precario, Patron Saint of Precarious Workers and Lives’. Fibreculture Journal, no. 5 (January). https://doaj.org/article/21831014ee7e49e984760822384c4b3b.
Vishmidt, M., 2005. ‘Precarious Straits’. Mute, The Precarious Issue, 1 (29): 93–95.
Von Osten, M., 2011. ‘Unpredictable Outcomes / Unpredictable Outcasts: On Recent Debates over Creativity and the Creative Industries’. In Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’, edited by G. Raunig, G. Ray and U.Wuggenig, 133–46. London: MayFlyBooks.
Williams, Z., 2019. ‘Feminism with No Human Warmth Leaves Me Cold’. The Guardian, 12 March 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/12/feminism-human-warmth-slumflower.
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Charalambides, S. (2020). When the Common Ground Seems Shattered: Self-enclosed individualism and partial relationality in creative practice. Peripeti, 17(31), 69–82. https://doi.org/10.7146/peri.v17i31.119191
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