03446nam 22005773a 450 991021986510332120250204000226.09781785420450178542045310.26530/OAPEN_630732(CKB)3800000000216129(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32588(ScCtBLL)6c4a61e3-b460-4e3d-a750-de508bcac9ae(OCoLC)1076644929(oapen)doab32588(EXLCZ)99380000000021612920250204i20172020 uu engurc|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Principle of UnrestBrian MassumiOpen Humanities Press2017[s.l.] :Open Humanities Press,2017.1 online resource (147 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Immediations9781785420443 1785420445 1. Capital moves --2. Movements of thought --3. Collective expression: a radical pragmatics --Works cited.There 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'.Movement (Philosophy)Political sciencePhilosophyEconomicsPhilosophyCapitalismPhilosophyExperienceNeoliberalismMovement (Philosophy)Political sciencePhilosophy.EconomicsPhilosophy.CapitalismPhilosophy.Experience.Neoliberalism.320.01Massumi Brian692925ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910219865103321The principle of unrest2011867UNINA