Nicoline van Harskamp - DeLVe | Institute for Duration, Location and ...

duboko prožeto onim što obično nazivamo
psihologijom, a od toga zavisi funkcionisanje
čitavih društvenih svjetova.
Možda to pitanje kolaboracije i „pozadine“
moramo upisati u širi narativ sudbine
negativnosti – shvaćene kao ono što se
nalazi izvan granica društvene kohezije i
zdravog razuma obilježenog pozadinom
– i naposlijetku preispitati taj spekulativni
narativ s obzirom na konkretnost
istorije. Jedno je sigurno o tom narativu:
dok su „pozitivisajuća“ sredstva disciplinovanog
režima (proizvodnja identitetâ)
proizvela negativnu „spoljašnjost“
– spoljašnjost reda, racionalnosti, pa čak
i jezika – društvo nadzora obuhvata sile
negativnosti i „upravlja“ njima. Važnost
načela „manjega zla“ direktan je simptom
takve paradigmatske promjene: „zlo“ je
simptomatična forma koju je u evropskoj
istoriji poprimila razarajuća sila negativnosti,
a „manje zlo“ je računica čija je
svrha da u zagrljaju globalnog „dobra“ to
zlo svede na minimum. Mogućnosti i sudbine
negativnosti – između ostalog i njen
utopistički imaginarij – naposlijetku su
transformisale upravo one njene postupke
koje artikulišu političko djelovanje, poput
odbijanja da se prihvati „datost“ stvarnostî.
Međutim, nove forme kolaboracije s
pozitivnim konotacijama, koje su nastale
u tim okolnostima, povezane su i potajno
komuniciraju s geografijom kolaboracije
iz prošlosti. Ovaj projekt nastoji da postavi
temelje na kojima se može oblikovati
razgovor o kolaboraciji, kao i o prikrivenim
strujanjima koja povezuju njene istorije.
calculations of possibility, opportunity,
margins, complicity and the management
of contradictions. It is not only a question
of rational judgement, but is heavily invested
in what we usually call psychology,
in which the enactment of entire social
worlds is at stake.
Perhaps we have to inscribe this question
of collaboration and the ‘background’ into
a larger narrative of the fate of negativity
– understood as that which lies beyond the
boundary of social cohesion and common
sense marked by the background – and
subsequently test such a speculative narrative
against the concreteness of history. At
least that much is known of this narrative:
while the ‘positivising’ devices of the
disciplinary regime (the production of
identities) produced a negative ‘outside’ -
an outside of order, rationality, and even
language - the society of control embraces
and ‘manages’ the forces of negativity. The
prominence of the “lesser evil” principle
is a direct symptom of such paradigmatic
change: “evil” is the symptomatic form the
disruptive power of negativity and negation
has taken in European history, and
the “lesser evil” is a calculation to reduce
evil to a minimum, embraced by a global
“good”. The possibilities and fates – and
not least the utopian imaginary – of negation
has subsequently transformed those
very gestures of negation that articulate
political agency, such as the refusal of recognizing
the ‘givenness’ of realities. However,
the new, positively connoted forms
of collaboration that have emerged under
these conditions have ties, and secretly
communicate, with the geography of collaboration
of the past. This project seeks
to lay grounds on which a conversation on
collaboration, and the undercurrents that
connect its histories, can be shaped.