Resumen de Precarious recipes: networks of subsistence
The transformation of labour practices based on immaterial production of information and the privatization of reproduction represents the oppressive face of postFordist capitalism, yet it can also constitute the release of a social potential for transformation. This thesis will argue how neoliberalism increases precarisation by relying on dispossession from means of subsistence (Shukaitis, 2006; Federicci, 1998; Mies & Bennholdt-Thomsen, 1999;
Harvey, 2003; Klein, 2007), and thus it will advocate how new methods of creative-social organization responding to precariousness should base itself on a “subsistence perspective” (Mies & Bennholdt-Thomsen, 1999). The paper explores this perspective by drawing on projects by Spanish architect collective Recetas Urbanas (Urban Prescriptions). It is discussed the mode of operation of the collective, underpinning how a “subsistence perspective” necessitates of a “network of subsistence” to be able to create a systematic alternative to capitalist commodity production. The conclusion thus suggests how due to the failure of markets and the states to address the precarity in which society is currently embedded, experimenting with commoning processes (Linebaugh, 2008; Garcia Diaz & Gielen, 2017) in the cultural terrain, and more importantly, in networks based on a feminist perspective of common principles, reproductive work and everyday relations (Fraser, 2016; Mies & Benholdt-Thomsen, 1999; Federicci, 2012), becomes an important task today.
