Political machines schizodrama: klinic, aesthetics and formation

Abstract

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gregorio Baremblitt Institute has provided its schizodramatists formation in an online format. The presentation of schizoanalysis and schizodrama takes place through theoretical and experiential practices, with the experimentation of various klinical dispositives. The objective of this article is to let us know the discourses and affects of those who attended the political machines klinic, to discuss which effects are elicited by dispositives that use aesthetical procedures in the experiential and formative process in these times of pandemic and fundamentalism. As a method, one hundred and twenty participants experienced the aforementioned dispositive and later stated the affections experienced, as well as images and emergent representations. Four political machines were performed through the use of music: 1st the state machine, 2nd the capitalist machine, 3rd the neo-fascist machine and 4th the becoming-warrior machine. We found that there was a great intensity in the dramatization of these songs that were articulated to each machine, which catalyzed the klinical process in a much more forceful way than the purely verbal group dispositives. The neo-fascist machine was the first to resonate, bringing apathy and paralysis sensations. On the other hand, the becoming-warrior machine has actualized transmutation and ancestral forces, providing lines of flight and a distinct assemblage of forces.