{"id":47784,"date":"2023-08-07T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=47784"},"modified":"2023-08-08T17:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:41:38","slug":"el-retorno-de-lo-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/el-retorno-de-lo-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Hannah Arendt, talking about the concept of community is inseparable from a reflection on <em>the political<\/em>, and so it\u2019s important that when launching a series of articles about communities, to recapitulate some key ideas of her thought. This is even more the case if the current political situation urges us to carry out an interpretation of events, still hungover from the recent Spanish elections and just before other no less important elections, such as in Argentina. Country which has just inaugurated the fourth edition of the Bienal Sur, in which the artist Jordi Colomer, among others, participates with a <a href=\"http:\/\/bienalsur.org\/bienalsurweb\/public\/es\/single_agenda\/425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project<\/a> in which he reflects on these same questions.<\/p>\n<p>It should not be forgotten that Communism was, in fact, a laboratory for imagining the concept of community (it even came to be called on some occasions \u201cthe authentic community of women\u201d) and perhaps it is not unreasonable to say that what we recently have been calling practices of pro-common is nothing more than a euphemism. A political community, according to Hannah Arendt, is constituted fundamentally thanks to an act of presence carried out by citizens, which reveals the decisive role of culture and art in making themselves visible.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond betting on representation policies, in recent years we have witnessed an unquestionable tendency to group forces and work dynamics in art through various modalities of communities, taking into account of what Massimiliano Mollona has called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/artcommons-9781786997005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Art\/Commons<\/em><\/a> (co-production, participation, mutualism and the valorization of reproductive work), with <a href=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/spotlight\/curators-go-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documenta fifteen<\/a> being perhaps the culmination of an entire cycle. Spain had its fundamental laboratory in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>We are aware, however, that political scientists, such as Michael Hardt or Loretta Napoleoni, have warned that certain forms of decentralized organizations within collaborative networks have become the dominant form of organized work, which should make us reflect on the proximity of the creative community to entrepreneurship. In fact, we have already seen how on occasions the <a href=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/spotlight\/primavera-sound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cultural industry<\/a>\u00a0exists within the center of the new economy.<\/p>\n<p>This <em>cultural shift<\/em> has been taken as an excuse to justify the emergence of certain conservative positions from within the left itself (as is the renewal of a certain <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_fascism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">red fascism<\/a>) that denounce the separation of the creative sphere from the reality of the working classes, at the same time as they promote conservative populist discourse that has ended up supporting the narrative of the extreme right.<\/p>\n<p>If we take into account other contexts, such as Italy, where the majority of the cultural and intellectual sphere has ended up giving up its political commitment to the public sphere and abandoning society to its fate in the hands of the extreme right, a self-critical reflection from within the creative class is needed to take into account the necessity of thinking about forms of diverse communities incorporated into more sectors of society and that represents a decisive break with <strong>exclusive snobbery<\/strong>. This is even more important when a kind of exacerbated nihilism and radical exhaustion have led many of us (artists, curators, designers, academics) to mistakenly think that stopping the advance of the extreme right is impossible. This reflection, however, cannot be subsumed within this new left-wing conservatism but instead must be articulated in complete antagonism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exactly 30 years ago, the political scientist Chantal Mouffe published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetadelibros.com\/libro-el-retorno-de-lo-politico\/315120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Return of the Political<\/em><\/a>, first inspiring battles and then laying the foundations for a political project with which many of us grew up. We learned then that the<em>political<\/em>is an essential dimension of antagonism, unlike politics which refers to the different activities aimed at organizing human coexistence, what Chancellor Otto von Bismarck called \u201cthe art of the possible.\u201d Now, at a time when we are rethinking forms of community, perhaps it is time to reimagine the art of the impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Front picture: Video frame\u00a0<em>X-Ville<\/em>\u00a0by Jordi Colomer, 2015 (Prod Xarxa, Loop, ESAAA), project from which he has started for <em>Casas vac\u00edas no hacen ciudad<\/em> that is currently participating in the South Biennial (Buenos Aires))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Hannah Arendt, talking about the concept of community is inseparable from a reflection on the political, and so it\u2019s important that when launching a series of articles about 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