[P2P-F] Tarde et al

Sun Jan 16 05:39:46 CET 2011

Dear Richard,

thanks for this forward, I am aware of Tarde's work mostly through the
reading of Maurizio Lazzarato (in French), and though I find it interested,
I do not use it much, I guess I'm still much more of a
structuralist-oriented thinker,

but please keep forwarding such items,

I'm particularly interested in the 'yoga of resistance', can you tell us
more? and what is 'phd'?

Michel

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Richard Carlson <rcarlson at olypen.com>wrote:

> btw. do you know Gabriel Tarde, there is an excellent article by Tony
> Sampson on network/contagion social theory that puts him into current
> perspective visa vie Durkheim, Deleuze, Thacker, Hardt and other while
> exploring the often unconscious transmission of what spreads through the
> affective feedback loops of infectable populations, - what intrigues me is
> that the resistance methods he explores at the end has interesting
> intersection points with what on "phd" we have begun calling the yoga of
> resistance
>
> "Tarde's diagram comprises of mostly unconscious flows of desire, passion,
> and imitative radiations of muscular, as well as cerebral activities. In
> sharp contrast then, Tarde's society of imitation does not fall back on
> collective or individual representations. It is not at all about pure
> association as it concerns the disassociated connectivity (unconscious
> association) of a social somnambulist. Like this, Tarde's social becomes an
> assemblage of relationality composed of self-spreading and mesmeric
> imitative waves or flows. [54]<http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=675#_edn54> What
> comes together does not occur by way of a collective consciousness pushing
> down on the individual, but is instead the "coherent" outcome of "desires
> that have been excited or sharpened by certain [social] inventions," which
> imitatively radiate outward, point-to-point, assembling what appear to be
> the logical arrangements of social form, like markets, nations and cities.
> [55] <http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=675#_edn55> What radiates
> outwards are neither social facts nor collective representations, but the
> microrelations of shared passions, thoughts, conversations, beliefs,
> feelings and affects which pass through porous self/other relations in all
> manner of contagious environments, including corporate, economic and
> political arenas. [56]<http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=675#_edn56> What
> comes together "socially" in these Tardean spaces is neither genetically
> subject-bound nor obligated to the wisdom of collective consensus, but is
> rather the outcome of an infra-individual relation that spreads below
> consciousness. The social, according to Tarde, is a vital force that
> self-spreads, radiates and vibrates out from capricious
> mechanism-independent social encounters with events and accidents"
>
>
> *Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks*
>
> http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=675
>
>
> ~r
>

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