Micropolitics and affective technologies in Catalonia during the pro-independence process
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https://doi.org/10.56247/qua.496Keywords:
Catalonia, sovereignty process, affects, affective technologies, micropoliticsAbstract
Beyond the politics exercised in and from institutions, individuals use their power resources to maintain or challenge political structures through micropolitics stimulated by affective technologies, pursuing, in Spinozist terms, that common soul that is reached more through affects than through reason (Lordon, 2018, p. 233). Based on empirical cases taken from the Catalan social reality of recent years, this article will analyse the so-called Catalonia of the Procés, mainly using conceptual tools such as the notion of micropolitics and that of affective technology, which are particularly suitable for exploring the politics of emotions and which even allow to think of a structuralism of passions (Lordon, 2018). In this way, instead of considering the ideas of agency and structure as antinomic, the continuous interplay between these different dimensions of reality is recognized.
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