English

Second Body

Since the end of the 60s it was clear for many people all over the world that it is not enough to try to oppose the economic-political order. The problem is not just about how to bring more bodies into the streets to fight the power and the obvious problems, but also about what kind of life powers those bodies. The bodies of the protesters and that of the rulers are not that different - in spite of the racial, sexual and class differences, at certain levels we share a degree of rigidity and limitations in our bodies, life capacities and potentiality. Intuitively, a lot of what happened at the end of the 60s was very much about addressing this situation, and about an liberation of the body from racial, sexual and disciplinary constraints. Since then it was a lot of talk about capitalism that constructs our minds and bodies, about an imperative to follow our desires and to bring freedom to the body. And some experimentation with common living, sexuality, psychotropic substances and everything that can be done to bring freedom of the mind and body. A good example for this attitude was the passing from a disciplinary regime to a sort of expressive regime of the body in the dance of tha

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