Current conjunctures of racism: dangerous conjunctures and reproductive relations

GAGO, VERÓNICA

Berlín

Simposio; Dangerous Conjunctures. Resituating Balibar/Wallerstein's Race, Nation, Class; 2018

Haus der Kulturen del Welt

A new proletarian landscape combines cooperation and exploitation based on bonds of trust, migrant economies, market networks, family workshops and remunerated reproductive tasks, linked to incomes from illegal and ?underground? economies. For this reason, the protagonists of these combinations cannot simply be categorised as ?excluded,? as ?marginal? or as a mere ?surplus population?. To evoke a vitalist pragmatics, therefore, is to emphasise the immanent pursuit of opportunities under relations of force that are characterised by the persistence of neoliberal conditions. In this way, such a vitalist pragmatics enacts a logic that is not that of survival, but one that enables the contestation of new forms of ?inclusion? (especially through financial mechanisms for generalised indebtedness) and new forms of ?citizenship? ? so many means of integrating people into the national community, no longer through labour rights, but rather through access to forms of cheap consumption.