Capacities for Constructing Collective Resistance and Radical Alliances

While afect provides a useful tool for contextual analysis, it risks reafrming a model of self-centered individualism–a sort of libertarianism often prioritized over community–that fails to challenge existing economic and social power structures. For example, the rhetoric of chaos proliferates forms of self-referential subjectivity. The crises and their surrounding discourses inundate the social and public spaces, which are increasingly fractured and uneven, partly due to the explosion of new communication technologies. These conditions foster a new form of normality based on exceptionality and emergency.