Abstract
Institutions are sustained by the affective commitments, practices, and behaviours of those embedded within them. Individuals extend institutions by their labour, improve them, help them survive and grow. This creates a tight attachment between an institution and its individuals through shared concepts and goals. At times, they can seem indistinguishable. Critical individuals commit to institutions often with a will to change them. They tirelessly name the sexism, racism, and lack of care, which they and others encounter, hoping to understand and ultimately overcome. How does one's participation in institutional structures—even with critical intentions—prolong their existence? One of the most radical claims in order to politically react to these dynamics is to demand the abolition of certain institutions altogether. But since individuals entertain such close spatial, temporal, and affective entanglements with them, it is questionable in how far it will be successful or whether the institution survives in the subject. This contribution proposes targeted alienation as a practice of disentanglement and a form of abolitionist labour.
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