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Do You Know How to Bleed?
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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Either me or the author of this text doesn't understand what prefiguration means. Because to me, what they are calling for is exactly that, prefiguration aka, actively building the new in the shell of the old. So this text is a bit confusing.
Prefiguration is often understood as purely performative. "Behaving as if". For example, in Temporary Autonomous Zones that do not challenge existent power nor deal with the conflict coming from outside the prefigurative bubble.
"Building the new in the shell of the old" is just... change? It's the normal mutation of society. System shift, paradigm shift, etc etc.
Prefiguration at its best isn't just performative but actively creates the material conditions and social relations needed for systemic change - it's like planting seeds that eventualy grow into the forest that replaces the concrete.
Well, it hasn't been working so far. The last 30 years of conscious prefigurative politics didn't achieve much.