At least, if that means anything any more. If everything’s political, nothing is. Except that’s wrong. “Politics” is not a uniform field. It is a set of always uneven relations, unable to be reduced to a mere adjective. Something can not be “more” or “less” political, just as something can not be “more” or “less” …
Patterns: politics
2. Drugs
Pharmacological interventions, drugs, neurochemical prostheses. For a cure or for fun, these are our most intimate technologies. They rearrange our spaces at the level of the senses, the body, and the flesh. The effect–the thought, the handshake, the message–becomes something different, something that moves differently across space and time, creating a new unique extension, a …
1. Spaces
A space is a set of relations, defined by its unique extension across space and time. A space between two trees can be a passageway for wind, a window, a place to hang a hammock, a distance invisibly traversed by underground roots, an arboreal interruption. Yes, it depends on what you want it to be, …
