Abstract

Parting from Kafka’s text on the Chinese Empire and the nomads, we draw the outlines of the «schizo» logic of the multitude confronted with the new forms of control. The economical expropriation of the networks of life and sense show that the forms of life that are involved never constitute an inert and passive mass that would be at capitals mercy, but rather a living totality of strategies. In the cases of violent exclusions, of survival and extreme resistance, when life is the one and only capital left, it constitutes, nonetheless, a vector of existentialisation and common autovalorization. The powers « on »life are countered by the power « of» life, redefined from a hybrid that is all at once : semiotic and machinic, molecular and collective, affective and economic. We must thus rethink the theme of resistance parting from the bio power and the inventive force of the multitude