Presenting author: Duvan Lopez Meneses (Polytechnical University of Catalonia)
Taking as a starting point multiple complaints regarding the ethical and political problems of resilience, is deemed verifiable the intensification of these conflicts in the global South, where theoretical mismatch with heterogeneity will be demonstrated as an expression of ontological contradictions between the codifying function exercised by the concept of resilience, from the technical-scientific paradigm, and the eccentric nature of reality (Saez, 2009), from where informality is intended to be interpreted.
The un-formed will be theorised as corresponding with the constitutive substrate of the reality (Deleuze & Guatari, 2004), a genetic domain for the emergence of space and resilience as political constructions. The notions of form and information, preindividuality, and individuation (Simondon, 2009) will provide the logical framework to explain such operations. The “formality” will be described, consequently, as contingent or “a posteriori” elaboration by political subjectivities, where dominant projections of territory and sovereignty are unveiled taking place; but also are discussed the scenarios opened in that “un-formed”, to condense tangible revolutionary forms.
The notion of resilience (and its criticisms) will be discerned from this ontological framework, seeking to contribute to demystification of any objective, apolitical or neutral condition granted to it. The convenience of an epistemology built from the south for the management of informality will be sustained, not by ideological biasing or moral affinities, but because of the insistence of informality, and its eloquence in that geographical realm. The content of resilience as an emerging quality will be discussed, and the practical application of these discussions for emancipatory practices in the urban transformation of the landscape.
