Temporary inoperations, possible futures and education

Abstract

This text tries to think about education, in the context of contemporary infoacceleration, as well as the type of subjectivity and the generalized fatigue arising from it – something called by Berardi (2019b) as depressive Zeitgeist – that throw us into a depletion that expropriates even the possibilities of thinking a future that is not marked by catastrophe, despite the promise to the contrary. We will propose, as an attempt to compose a certain experience of other speeds in class, based on Lazzarato's (2014) reading of Guattari, exercises that aggregate the three main dimensions that engender subjectivity in a capitalistic context: signifying semologies, a-signifying semiotics, and existential and affective energies. With this, we aim at a community united by the multiplicity of temporal experiences, what we will call inoperative time.