Transversality

A transformative mobility though different systems (that can be at once technical, but also social, political, natural). It tends to be lateral, rather than hierarchical. A transversal connection does not just connect fields or sets of pre-existing relations. It transforms the things/events that are brought into connected networks. Any ‘individual’/individuation/social or natural ecology is to some extent a network, and any network involves an ecologies of transversals. Crucially, the micro-reconstitution of relations is as important as, if not more so than, the macro- reconstitution of fields. [1]

Literature

• Gilles Deleuze, "Préface. Trois problémes de groupe", in Psychanalyse et transversalité. Essais d'analyse institutionelle, Paris: La Découverte, 2003, pp I-XI.
• Félix Guattari, "La transversalité", in Psychanalyse et transversalité. Essais d'analyse institutionelle, Paris: La Découverte, 2003, pp 72-85.
• Gerald Raunig, "Transversal Multitudes", eipcp 09 (2002).
• Andrew Murphie, "Editorial", Fibreculture Journal 9, 2006.
• Glen Fuller, "Transversality", Event Mechanics blog, 9 May 2007.
• Gerald Raunig, Art and Revolution. Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007.
• Gerald Raunig, "Transverality: In Search of a Non-Instrumental Relationship Between Art and Politics", transforum 2 (May-August), 2008.