quarta-feira, 30 de julho de 2014




"(...)
From the process from which the game actually emerged, and continues to evolve, to the extent that circumstances arise that force modifications of the rules. The foundational rules follow and apply themselves to forces of variation that are endemic to the game, and constitute the real conditions of the game’s emergence. (...) 
So what is the condition? Quite simply, a field. (...) The field of play is an in-between of charged movement. It is more fundamentally a field of potential (...).
(...)

Disciplinary stoppage momentarily depotentializes the field in a way that makes its intensive elements appear to the trained perceiver as separate terms in extrinsic relation to one another. Channelings of global modulations of the field are reduced to local moves (...) deviant effect.
(...)

Control is modulation made a power factor (its flow factor). It is the powering-up – or powering-away – of potential. 
It is in no way underestimating capitalist control to call its worldwide trafficking in modulation the stylization of power.
(...)"










in "The Political Economy of Belonging and the Logic of Relation"
by Brian Massumi



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