165DSL - a poetical introduction
The flow of biographical data, emerging from any given socio-economical situation, is not only closely intertwined with its immediate environment, but it is also, and even more profoundly, structured around the establishment of certain types of isolated events, that we here, for terminological reasons, have chosen to call micro-economical disruptures. Such a disrupture may assume many shapes.
It can transgress the manic-depressive condition of having no money. It can sneak under the openness of borrowed means. It can even conceal itself as the opposite of the socio-phobic creature that cadges on empty walls. Its inhuman geometry may cause unwarranted jaunts into the caves of piled demands and the side effects may vary from a single love affair to the change of heart of an entire generation. All of these events do however have something in common: We call them disruptures, not only in order to avoid the vocabulary of identity, which naturally is a feature that they all lack, but also because as abstractions, as we shall see, they are only describable in terms of breakages, cracks or dismantled opinions. As this book aims to make these breakages theoretically transparent and indeed aspire to produce real experience of them and their relations to the flow of biographical and economical values, we can accordingly not limit the scope of this investigation to mere contractarian types of events. That is to say, it is not enough to trace the movements of, and reasons for, monetary transactions, but the nature of these transactions must also be compromised by and re-established within a field of experiences uneducable to the familiarity of everyday relations and to the colloquial air of micro-economics (i.e. the flow of means between friends, in a family, informal, on the black market, etcetera.) Furthermore, due to the peculiar logic of these micro-economical disruptures, that this analysis is forced to
It can transgress the manic-depressive condition of having no money. It can sneak under the openness of borrowed means. It can even conceal itself as the opposite of the socio-phobic creature that cadges on empty walls. Its inhuman geometry may cause unwarranted jaunts into the caves of piled demands and the side effects may vary from a single love affair to the change of heart of an entire generation. All of these events do however have something in common: We call them disruptures, not only in order to avoid the vocabulary of identity, which naturally is a feature that they all lack, but also because as abstractions, as we shall see, they are only describable in terms of breakages, cracks or dismantled opinions. As this book aims to make these breakages theoretically transparent and indeed aspire to produce real experience of them and their relations to the flow of biographical and economical values, we can accordingly not limit the scope of this investigation to mere contractarian types of events. That is to say, it is not enough to trace the movements of, and reasons for, monetary transactions, but the nature of these transactions must also be compromised by and re-established within a field of experiences uneducable to the familiarity of everyday relations and to the colloquial air of micro-economics (i.e. the flow of means between friends, in a family, informal, on the black market, etcetera.) Furthermore, due to the peculiar logic of these micro-economical disruptures, that this analysis is forced to
relocate from a peripheral and even detached placement
and put at the forefront of investigation, another quite peculiar task makes itself present: The conceptual apparatus (commonly) used to describe the global flow of monetary and intellectual capital,
must be re-interpreted and spelled out as if its symbolic value were mere fiction. We must hence attempt to produce a double-layered blueprint that can serve as a guiding tool towards the explicit articulation of the relationship between value and event, and in due course also of the relation between biographical data and experienced disruptures.
This does however not mean that it is a matter of merely mapping values and events as arbitrary nodes within a formal system. No, the task is on the contrary to surface these events that are called micro-economical disruptures due to their non-linear function within the established mechanisms of our global market, and make them transparent.
To sum up, we can now divide the present analysis into three parts, guided by three questions:
(1) How is the specific constellation of the data – making up a certain individual biographical material – structured, insofar as it is merely to be considered in terms of the economical value of the events that, considered isolated, are disruptures? That is, how can we articulate the implicit contracts that are established between the flow of every-day investments and the intentional disruptures of such a flow, accomplished by the purchase of experiences describable only through the collapse or insufficiency of economical notions?
This does however not mean that we can start to loosen the reins of the methods used due to the hypothetical stance of the assumed thesis. No, we should rather be more aware that ever of the mythological figures that we must incorporate into our body of words in order to surface those innate landscapes that we are to consider. And our thoughts must be more exact and more independent that any theoretical exposition, because what we are dealing with reveals itself only as cracks in plates.
(2) How are we hence to treat the conceptual apparatus that governs any description of the global flow of monetary and intellectual capital, if we necessarily must dismantle the symbolic value of its parts? How are we, in other words, to disclose the difference between demand and desire and accordingly expose those principles that give economical notions real and even personal contents?
(3) How can we, furthermore, within such a disclosure escape the corrupting mechanisms of abstraction and make transparent those events that are concealed by oversimplified conclusions drawn in terms of the obviousness and natural origin of the, so called, global market?
In order to answer these questions and in order to finally intertwine their answers in an exhaustive and transforming image that moves in phase with the healing and wounding blades of limitless economy, we must turn our eyes to yet unformalized methods. And far beyond any the contents of any translatable textbook of financial strategies, we must submerge into the pathless moist that opens up between a free market and a free experience.
Yet even if the final goal of the present investigation is to give the reader one singular experience, the specific compositions of its three guiding questions are so diverse that their individual differences first must be treated accurately with methods and materials that correspond their contents. And indeed, even if the hypothetical thesis so far is that the biographical data of any individual, exhausting an entire life span, is nothing but the consequences of merged cracks, this it yet to be subjected to experiment, and any conclusions of that sort must be postponed to the very end.