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On militant research
A collection of essays on the idea of Militant Research can be found at the awesome webjournal Transversal, 4/2006 issue. Each essay is in three languages such as the Colectivo Situaciones piece, On the Researcher-Militant, and the piece by Marta Malo de Molina (translated by the lovely Maribel and Sebastian of the Notas Rojas radical translations collective) Common notions, part 1: workers-inquiry, co-research, consciousness-raising. I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and I'm actually working on an essay about applying the unmethodolodical methodology of militant research at the New School for the upcoming DisO guide.
This is the editorial introduction to the issue:
Workers inquiry, joint research, militant research
Since Marx published his questionnaire for workers in the Revue Socialiste in 1880, there have been countless initiatives (especially in the last fifty years) that have sought to not only interpret the world, but to change it through a new production of reality. What all of these initiatives of militant research have in common – partly using differing terminology – is that they endeavored to overcome the hierarchy between theory and practice, the investigators and the investigated, the political and the personal. In this way they did not simply counter the old institutions of knowledge production with new ones, but instead tested practices of producing collective knowledge that traversed the institutions.
Whereas the majority of historical experiences in the 1960s and 1970s arose from a climate of social upheaval and mass mobilization, the context of current initiatives is a different one: in cognitive capitalism knowledge production takes up a greater and greater portion of overall production; at the same time, the terrain in which current forms of militant research move appears more fragmented, atomized and changeable.
This issue of the web journal transversal attempts to gather various approaches to militant research on the basis of survey texts, historical essays and reflections on current projects.
A collection of essays on the idea of Militant Research can be found at the awesome webjournal Transversal, 4/2006 issue. Each essay is in three languages such as the Colectivo Situaciones piece, On the Researcher-Militant, and the piece by Marta Malo de Molina (translated by the lovely Maribel and Sebastian of the Notas Rojas radical translations collective) Common notions, part 1: workers-inquiry, co-research, consciousness-raising. I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and I'm actually working on an essay about applying the unmethodolodical methodology of militant research at the New School for the upcoming DisO guide.
This is the editorial introduction to the issue:
Workers inquiry, joint research, militant research
Since Marx published his questionnaire for workers in the Revue Socialiste in 1880, there have been countless initiatives (especially in the last fifty years) that have sought to not only interpret the world, but to change it through a new production of reality. What all of these initiatives of militant research have in common – partly using differing terminology – is that they endeavored to overcome the hierarchy between theory and practice, the investigators and the investigated, the political and the personal. In this way they did not simply counter the old institutions of knowledge production with new ones, but instead tested practices of producing collective knowledge that traversed the institutions.
Whereas the majority of historical experiences in the 1960s and 1970s arose from a climate of social upheaval and mass mobilization, the context of current initiatives is a different one: in cognitive capitalism knowledge production takes up a greater and greater portion of overall production; at the same time, the terrain in which current forms of militant research move appears more fragmented, atomized and changeable.
This issue of the web journal transversal attempts to gather various approaches to militant research on the basis of survey texts, historical essays and reflections on current projects.
