Crisis, criticism and insurrection

Abstract

https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2024/76669

This article presents the relationship between war, crisis and capitalism, as constitutive of a form of economic, political and subjective production, which discourages the common perspective of social constitution. At this point, it is necessary to build critique, as a critique of a particular model of production of subjectivities, and of a specific democratic project, namely, the liberal security democracies. However, if capitalism presents itself as war and crisis, and institutes a mode of production of subjectivities emptied of power, it is because of its contemporary composition that it becomes possible to constitute political technologies of the common, and forms and practices of insurrection against capitalism cybernetic-colonial. That said, what is proposed in this paper is to build capitalism as war and crisis, which produces a type of subject and a democratic paradigm, to, in a second moment, propose a possible democracy based on new technopolitical arrangements that take place in common, and which at the same time constitute the common, presenting the common as a necessary political-democratic destiny. For that, it uses the historical materialism as a methodological, theoretical-analytical referential in the bias of Antonio Negri, in which the method considers the antagonism between a creative subjectivity and a subjectivity constituted by capital. It is in this sense that new categories of analysis are established that allow us to account for new social subjects (the crowd/the common) and understand the forms of manifestation of the common from these categories in antagonism to the “imperial” categories.