POLITICAL SUBJECTIVITY: THE INTERPHASE BETWEEN SOCIAL STRUGGLE AND SINGULAR LIFES

We are experiencing widespread exhaustion and distress due to constant exposure to cruelty, now magnified by televised genocide, the legitimization of discriminatory and openly fascist policies, new and old processes of colonialism, and the imminent risk of fire or flooding in our neighborhoods and villages. Faced with all this, instead of collective unrest, we are sold a package of individual suffering—a toxic prescription that numbs us to the interconnected nature of our crises. This isolation is a political technology, a weapon that severs the link between personal anguish and collective power. In this panel, we seek to emphasize the exchange of scales between subjective and social structures as key to social struggle. We will do so by exploring a set of experiences from different contexts and countries that lie at the intersection of pedagogy and activism, and the search for processes of co-liberation that go beyond the mere satisfaction of human needs.