CLASSE COGINITIVA: ASPIRAÇÃO, COMPETIÇÃO, DESORIETANÇÃO E MORTE

Além de fictícia a idea da 'classe media’ brasileira (eu chamo "o sonho neo-liberal brasileiro de aspiração”), eu diria que o  capiltalismo em sua forma mais absolutista e realista no presente-perpetuo eh uma maquina biológica e linguistica de morte pronta pra foder também a nova classe cognitiva de hoje, ou seja, todos nós que na verdade somos a classe operária digital sem a poética da 'maquina industrial' de antes e sem o ‘patrão’ físico para poder lutar contra. 

A nova classe cognitiva que usa facebook, twitter, tumblr etc e que navega 24/7 pelo mundo virtual sitiado, globalizado e capitalizado….. eh solitária, deprimida, sleepless, ansiosa, competitiva e suicida. Não eh capaz de encontrar nenhum tipo de solidariedade. Não se importa com o outro. Eh individual. Eh fraca, sem vontade, morta, cansada, mediana. Por isso ta fodida sempre, por isso nao sabe que esta fodida, por isso esta zumbificada, por isso nao consegue ser mais criativa e vive de cópia e pastiche, por isso nao consegue dar um passo além da ironia e por isso nunca vai colaborar de verdade com ninguém. 

A classe operaria industrial sentia o mesmo mas era inteligente, solidária, humana, sexual, forte….tinha energia psíquica de sobra e muita disposição, por isso conseguia fazer tudo isso com mais autonomia... ate se suicidar como um ato de resistência se fosse o caso. Ou seja conseguia se organizar pra poder foder com o 'patrão' e ainda criava tempo pra comentar ou vomitar essa relação de morte em arte, no bar ou em música. 

Nesse novo semio-capiltalismo mutante a infelicidade vai ser mutua entre o explorado e explorador. Se assim for, o explorador também vai se foder a qualquer momento. Vai ser humilhado e vai perder a auto-estima. 
Para além da competição, a moeda corrente é a desorientação. 

On Capital Absolutism, Bio-Semiocapiltalism & Cognitive Workers

An epidemic of unhappiness is spreading across the planet, while capital absolutism is asserting its right to unfettered control of our lives. A bio-semiocapitalism infiltrates the nervous cells of conscious sensible organisms, it inoculates in them a thanato-political rationale, a morbid sentiment which is progressively taking hold of the collective unconscious, culture and sensibility. The biopolitical effect of semiocapitalism ( better said: thanatological effect of semiocapitalism) is essentially the capture of cognitive activity, and the subjection of the faculty of expression of the linguistic animal to the sleepless, aggressive dynamics of the labour market.

Language is captured by the networked machine and turned into an essentially productive activity. Herein lies the trap: people are encouraged to consider their linguistic competence as factors of economic competition, and to manage and invest in them as such. Creativity, expressiveness, affection, emotion - the human soul, in other words - are considered to be productive factors and consequently, they are evaluated according to standards of productivity. Exploitation, competition, precariousness, redundancy are not perceived as the effects of a conflictual social relationship, but internalised as deficiencies of the self, as personal inadequacies. The unceasing restructuring of the organisation of work is perceived as humiliation and brutality.

Only NON_INVOLVEMENT and the ability to remain extraneous, to refuse any identification with one's job and with one's working condition, only a radical rejection of the ethics of responsibility, might offer works the possibility of navigating a way out from this productivity blackmail.

Unfortunately, the ethics of responsibility, the phoney discourse on participation and collaboration, are prevailing in today's political and cultural life. We invest our psychic energies and our expectations into work because our intellectual and affective life is poor, because we are depressed, anxious and insecure. So we are trapped. The industrial worker who was obliged to repeat the same gesture a thousand times every day had no reason to identify with her work - so she invested her psychological energies into solidarity with colleagues, and her mind was free to hate the assenbly line, and to entertain thoughts that had nothing to do with her daily slavery. Conversely, cognitive works have been lured into the trap of creativity: their expectations are submitted to the productivity blackmail because they are obliged to identify their soul (the linguistic and emotional core of their activity) with their work. Social conflicts and dissatisfaction are perceived as psychological failures whose effect us the destruction of self-esteem.

For cognitive workers, particularly in conditions of precariousness, solidarity is rare. Everyone feels alone, pushed to complete at the mercy of precariousness.

Franco Bifo Berardi - extract from Heroes: Mass Murder & Sucide (Verso 2015)

THE FOURTH WORLD IS NOW - DREAM LIKE A BABY a video by Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado

Everything is visible, nothing is disguised. 

DREAM LIKE A BABY is an experimental eco-philosophical DIY sci-fi on the survivors of a dystopian 4th-world dominated by bugs & other pests. The film is set in the near-future amid a post-global / post-human new order which is assimilated as a continuos perpetual present. In the fourth world, Tetine take the form of ‘errant insects’ & create a post-Derridean electro spoken-word on cockroaches, future ecologies and other existencial & political contaminations. 

For those waiting for the singularity to come. 

Dream Like A Baby: a video by Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado

Text and music: Bruno Verner / Eliete Mejorado

Track originally released on the album "In Loveland With You" (Slum Dunk Music 2013).

Production and direction: Tetine, 2015

File under: tetine, sci-fi, DIY-film, dance, dystopia, insects, future ecologies,  food, no food, music, electronica, dark electro-rap, subcultures, cockroaches, bees, bugs, singularity, the fourth world

"I think it's fair to call this event a singularity ("the Singularity"). It is a point where our models must be discarded and a new reality rules. As we move closer and closer to this point, it will loom vaster and vaster over human affairs till the notion becomes a commonplace. Yet when it finally happens it may still be a great surprise and a greater unknown." Vernor Vinge

More info: www.tetine.net