From Communism to Commons?

摘要

It is still possible to posit the 'hypothesis of communism' (Alain Badiou) but not without realising that creative capitalism subsumes and distorts classical Communist ideas, such as the supersession of the division of labour or the universalisation of creativity. Collaborative activist practices in art that still posit a communist hypothesis must negotiate these obstacles. In the present dialogue, two members of Chto Delat?, a group of artists and intellectuals from Petersburg and Moscow, discuss how to resist and work through the atomisation that inevitably affects any collective, interdisciplinary practice. It is very important to create one's own context without succumbing to the religious pathos of an 'exodus', and it is very important to work through a radically new class composition of society by inventing new transversal organisational forms, finding the link to the historical avant-garde as a source of both meaningful aesthetic pleasure and a new form of political discipline.