Introduction: Schizoanalytic Ventures
The title, Schizoanalytic Ventures At the End of the World: Film, Video, Art, and Pedagogy, addresses the state of affairs in what is a precarious condition for our species living on the Earth, in terms of both an ecological crisis and a political crisis
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Introduction: Schizoanalytic Ventures
The title, Schizoanalytic Ventures At the End of the World: Film, Video, Art, and Pedagogy, addresses the state of affairs in what is a precarious condition for our species living on the Earth, in terms of both an ecological crisis and a political crisis that shape contemporary global dynamics. While ‘end of the world’ sounds very dramatic, it is a call from the future that casts its shadow on us today. This call is a warning as to a final end that is projected if and when the Earth no longer becomes habitable; at the same time, it is also a call to the growing and overwhelming conditions that are giving rise to neo-fascism and its consequent dictatorships that are springing around the globe in various degrees of force, held together by populist politics that have enabled such a condition to emerge. As many have noted, democracies that shaped modernist thinking are failing, as a very small percent of the population is able to manipulate the political scene, supported by wealthy business interests. In both these senses, a suicidal course has been charted. As Deleuze and Guattari write in Anti-Oedipus: ‘the most disadvantaged, the most excluded members of society invest with passion the system that oppresses them, and they always find an interest in it, since it is there that they search for and measure it’ (A-O, 346). Schizoanalysis comes from the process philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, which interrogates the global capitalist economic formation by exploring the dynamics of its ongoing formations and transformations. © The Author(s) 2019 j. jagodzinski, Schizoanalytic Ventures at the End of the World, Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12367-3_1
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It addresses the state of the global precarity that fluctuates between the capitalist poles of paranoia and schizophrenia. Both tendencies pull together and apart in every socius where the pretense to socialist democracy prevails as ennobled by a social justice agenda, yet capitalism sets the parameters for such a promising agenda. Schizophrenia is, by and large, a creative endeavor, both as a formation of the psyche and in its resistance to the socius (the set principles of the social order). It offers a form of ‘unlimited semiosis’ that unhinges fixed meanings; Deleuze and Guattari identify with such an orientation as a source of transformative change. Given that the marketplace is driven by profit motivations based on stochastic quantitative analysis, a nation’s bottom line as to its health/wealth is calculated via employment statistics, GNP growth, stock market indicators, import-export calculations, and so forth, such an ‘objective’ tendency of measurement overrides any meaning and belief system that lays claims to its foundation. Religious orientations fall into line in support, be they evangelical Christians in the USA, Hinduism in India, and the rise of Political Islam in Turkey where Islam and capitalism are reconciled. The ‘American dream’ is based on this funda
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