Subjective effects of production practices in contemporary spatial struggles

Abstract

The article discusses the importance of the study of subjectivity and its relationship with the construction of residential spaces. It
analyzes how different types of subjectivity affect the production of subjectivity and how they can be crucial to establish the conditionsof contemporary subjection and desubjection. The first part of the document explains the implemented methodology, called Relational Political Ontology of subjects and spaces. In the second section, the heterogeneity of the practices and their relationship with the processes of subjectivation/dissubjection are discussed. The third section discusses the relationship between productive practices and the constitution of subjects, incorporating into Foucault’s subjective theory the modes of subjectivation derived from productive practices, described in the rhetorical figures of Marxist vampirism and machination. Finally, in the last two sections of the article, some constructive practices are analyzed with special attention to the paradigms of institutional/State architecture, which can be described as capture practices; Resistant construction practices such as popular self-construction or bioconstruction are also analyzed, which show a marked interest in the distribution of and knowledge in different subjects for a more autonomous management of spaces.