Thesis Outline GdG

WHAT?

“The people are multiple, the people are also divided” (Chantal Mouffe)

The thesis will be a research on conflictual models for community existence. In particular, I want to talk about alternatives to single hegemonic orders and implications of plural systems of rules and organizations. The sphere of the commons implies a rupture in the identity boundaries and expose individuals to a potential conflict. In this way, we can say that conflict is always a model of communities organizational structures. The minimization of the “struggle of the commons” through democratic, universalist and liberal models of participation cannot overcome the automatic conflictuality of individuals that forms a community. The processes of collaboration, bargain, discussion are processes by counter-hegemonic movements that transforms actively institutions and society.

I will look into a few neoliberal models that promotes “active” collaboration like : - sorting selection of political candidates - consensus & majority -

And research on different political paradigms or exceptions that includes margin of improvisation within a regulated system.

Conflictual participation is the best-case scenario for an encounter between people and society. It implies a surprise effect and impossibility to rely on previous standards. “What is interesting from conflictual participation is the critical engagement or the introduction of a post-disciplinary attitude, which can lead to a new production of knowledge”

Individuals that are naturally moved by individual self-interest, are still able to commit to a game of tactical collaboration? How is this “game” interfacing with the existent law?

NAME DROPPING

conflictual models of community existence
on the role of order for groups of people
which are the alternative to hegemonic order?
acceptance of pluralism in/outside democracy.
game theory
common pool strategies.
alternatives to the tragedy of the commons
how people organize themselves and their actions in the sphere of the commons
political paradigms, and exceptions: margins of improvisation within a regulated system.
why democracy cannot work?
on processes of immunization in community existence.
the failure of participative processes
on conflict and game theory 
on commitment and co-operation
theory of interdependence
individual strategic threats, promises, expectations 
how to achieve coordination?
problems of conflict and collaboration: self-interest and common interests
hegemonic nature of every social order

HOW?

DIVISION CHAPTERS

methods: I want to combine discursive and philosophical narrative with a series of comics that portrayed groups of people in different setups of the city. People in stations, streets, metro, supermarkets, traffic jams, suburbs etc. I will photograph those places and human dynamics from “above“, a distant and voyeristic point of view, an hegemonic position. The narrative of the strips will be an attempt to analyze the behavior of people in public space from their movements.

WHY?

Turn biopolitics into affirmative politics of communities. Look through the notion of public, commons and their specificities. How to create new spaces of freedom?