Envolvendo-se com a diferença. Temas multiperspectivistas na história soviética das ideias

This chapter begins to define the philosophical and political parameters and stakes around scaping, the name given to the mode or style of rhythmanalysis developed in this book, situating scaping in relation to, and distinguishing it from, other methodological, ontological, and epistemological approaches, and will seek to articulate an immanent rhythmanalysis through discussions of method, critique, ecology, cybernetics, aesthetics, decoloniality, and revolution. It will argue that a methodological and ontological emphasis on rhythm, process, and ecology offer new accounts of epistemology, ontology, but also of modes of social, political, and aesthetic transformation (which I will offer through a reading of Deleuze’s notions of counter-actualisation and dramatisation), drawing succour from Joseph Beuys’s idea of “social sculpture.” This chapter will conclude with a discussion of revolution in the work of Slavoj Žižek, engaging with Gerald Raunig’s recent work, and taking into account Sara Motta and Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo’s decolonial critiques, ultimately towards a rhythmic reading of revolution, which argues for a definition of revolution in terms of long-term projects comprising the navigation of repetition and difference in everyday cycles, and which requires, it will be argued, a conceptualisation of a key site of political struggle: everyday life.