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Abstract

This paper plays within the moments felt as subject(ivity) formed within actual events, moments Whitehead describes as actual occasions. Moments pulled away from creative becoming, the Deleuze/Guattari conceptualisation of affect, their immanently relational nonbeing, to attune, or retune, into conformations acceptable to what Moten and Harney speak into as logistical capitalism and its assemblage of the ‘proper way to do things’.It is a thinking within the comprehensibility of logistical capitalism aiming “...to straighten us out, untangle [unravel] us...in the constant measure and regulation of flesh and earth,” conversing with Manning’s concept of the clear – the violent colonial destruction of land, bodies, cultures, philosophies, imaginations, languages, histories and thought – where we find ourselves languaging: expressing a collective enunciation moving out of the clear bypassing language, a means of “forced improvement in production,” to communicate the unclear, the in-betweenness, the Duchamp/Manning fleeting and pre-articulate moments of the infrathin frictioning in-between the logistical capitalist subject(ivity) attempting to pull us into actual occasions of conforming to its ideology and the irreducibility of experience. To grasp at the uneasy (in)visible borders frictioning the everyday, shaping the ways we exist. Moving within the un/clear.From small beginnings at an ECQI writing workshop into a Guattarian subject body frictioning the in-betweenness of ages, genders, abilities, thinkings, experiencings, timelines, ideologies, imaginations, life processes, languaging moves as a “plural and polyphonic” communicating beyond “the best that has been thought and said,” within the more than “essential knowledge they [pupils] need to be educated citizens.”This paper is a tale of galxys and forgotten glasses; the myriad lives of blazer pockets contents; educational lines of attainment, developmental lines, the line of sit up straight, line up class, graded lines of assessment; the line to take when your teacher, in front of your entire class, tells you, “you can be nice when you try;” of Valueless gramma mucking up the production of a clear(ed) “explicit knowledge of grammar.” This paper speaks into Kurt Cobain and No Violet Bulawayo; A Thousand Plateaus living in a school bag; Hobbits; Shakespeare’s failure to achieve ‘star of the week’ in Year Five English; Deleuze/Guattari’s secret superhero identity; dragons; whether a body-without-organs has facial hair; Brian Massumi in the medium of LegoTM; the frictioning difference between eight electrons. This is the research of an eleven year old philosopher negotiating logistical capitalism in education, languaging infrathin moments in-between its “right foundation for good future progress through school and life” and their creative becoming.

Publication Date

2025-01-10

Event

European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Hope, Humility and Playfulness in a Precarious World

Acceptance Date

2025-01-10

Deposit Date

2026-08-14

First Page

219

Last Page

219

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