{"id":26,"date":"2025-10-19T19:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:49:15","slug":"anti-fascist-life-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/anti-fascist-life-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Fascist Life\u00a0Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This page contains some of the resources that I mentioned in the workshop at Leipzig Contact Improvisation Festival 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop is inspired by Brian Massumi&#8217;s new book <strong><em>The Personality of Power A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life<\/em><\/strong> (2025), and accompanying book <em><strong>Toward a Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book introduced me to a new lens to investigate Fascism as <strong>an affective regime of reaction that agitates and orients bodies at the <em>molecular<\/em> (cellular level) or pre\u2011cognitive level<\/strong>. Through dance, somatic and embodiment practices, we have the potential to practice a way of life that is anti-fascism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brain also questions the notion of the \u201cperson\u201d as a stable, autonomous individual but<strong> <em>formed<\/em> in a collective process, in which multiple persons can share <em>joint possession<\/em> of affective fields.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/978-1-4780-3159-8_pr.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/978-1-4780-3159-8_pr.jpg.webp 600w, http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/978-1-4780-3159-8_pr.jpg-200x300.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/555707288_1455384035976358_9191325937542177088_n-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/555707288_1455384035976358_9191325937542177088_n-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/555707288_1455384035976358_9191325937542177088_n-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/555707288_1455384035976358_9191325937542177088_n-768x960.jpg 768w, http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/555707288_1455384035976358_9191325937542177088_n-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/555707288_1455384035976358_9191325937542177088_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Brian&#8217;s writing, Fascism is not just a historical event, nor a regime \u2013 it is a <strong>recurring process<\/strong>, adapting and re-emerging in new forms. How can we understand power, personality and collectivity? How do we trace the way fascism operates, spreads, and takes root in the collective psyche?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classical framework to understand fascism is centred around one &#8220;mass&#8221; movement, one charismatic &#8220;leader&#8221;and a certain ideology. Brain inspires us to understand it through &#8220;personality of power&#8221;, relations, affective fields (bodily, pre-cognitive intensities, pre-emotion) and micro-bodies; Ideology is replaced by impulses and reactions, what Brian calls an &#8220;affective regime of reaction&#8221; that agitates and orients bodies at a &#8220;molecular level&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been exploring through scores on many concept proposed by this book, especially on cellular level how affect and reaction works, how power&nbsp;<em>makes persons<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>moves through persons<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>links them affectively<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also referring the original idea of non-fascism way of life, from <strong>Michel Foucault&#8217;s Preface to&nbsp;Anti-Oedipus<\/strong>. This book by Gilles Deleuze and F\u00e9lix Guattari is the first volume of a larger book titled <strong>Capitalism and Schizophrenia<\/strong>. Anti-Oedipus is published in 1972, exactly the same year of the birth of Contact Improvisation. You can read a photocopy of this short essay by Foucault below, or move with the audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"608\" src=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1.jpg 767w, http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"608\" src=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.jpg 767w, http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"608\" src=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.jpg 767w, http:\/\/yinhaolong.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height: 228px; width: 600px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/audio.com\/embed\/audio\/1843002601755276?theme=light\"\n    style=\"display:block; border-radius: 1px; border: none; height: 204px; width: 600px;\"><\/iframe><a href='https:\/\/audio.com\/yin-haolong' style=\"text-align: center; display: block; color: #A4ABB6; font-size: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis;\">@yin-haolong<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The three points that I summarised at the workshop are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Practice thinking and living in multiplicity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See desire as a generating force, not as lack.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don&#8217;t fall in love with power, even the smallest of it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The state is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour, we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently towards one another. We are the state and we shall continue to be the state until we created the institutions that form a real community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_Gustave Landauer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some of the questions I ask in my own practice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do I do? What do I perceive? What do I take as truth *wahrnehmung? Mindfulness\/awareness as anti-fascism practice at cellular level.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Micro-fascism takes shape on molecular level, in our everyday habits, desires and relations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dance improvisation as a practice of non-fascist living.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fascist seeks order, obedience and uniformity, improvisation thrive to openness, plurality and relation. Fascist invite standardised protocol, improvisation invite change. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Practice thinking and living in multiplicity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How can we be one and many simultaneously? How do we practice against binaries and totalities? How do we listen, improvise, co-existing without domination? How do we affirm different (be welcomed by different rather than welcome difference)? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See desire as a force of production, not as lack. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sense of lack generates scarcity and competition, and thinkings such as not achieving enough, not good enough, not well-planned enough, incomplete. Rather we can see desire as a generative, active, productive force, it creates connection, assemblages and new realities. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t fall in love with power, even the smallest of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Who speaks, who decides, who listens, who directs the flow, who is in the centre? How do we share knowledge with each other without monopolize? How can we de-certificate\/de-trademark embodied knowledge and our practice?  How do we build collective structure (think of tensegrity, rhizome) instead of pyramid of authority? How do we create space?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three things to bear in mind while we practice: we are here to do the <strong>impossible<\/strong> (from bodhisattva way of living), we <strong>fall<\/strong> all the time (from contact improvisation), <strong>use everything<\/strong> and <strong>start again and again<\/strong>(from Gertrude Stein).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More work around the topic within Contact Improvisation community:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>writings by Heike Pourian, you can check out her books at <a href=\"https:\/\/beruehrbarewelt.de\/#slide4\">https:\/\/beruehrbarewelt.de\/#slide4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mayfield brooks&#8217;s work Improvising While Black, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrongcontact.zone\/notices\/improvising-while-black\">http:\/\/wrongcontact.zone\/notices\/improvising-while-black<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, a talk by Keith Hennessy to Freiburg Contact Festival 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height: 228px; width: 600px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/audio.com\/embed\/audio\/1846443018182458?theme=light\"\n    style=\"display:block; border-radius: 1px; border: none; height: 204px; width: 600px;\"><\/iframe><a href='https:\/\/audio.com\/yin-haolong' style=\"text-align: center; display: block; color: #A4ABB6; font-size: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis;\">@yin-haolong<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Leipzig Contact Festival for us to gather, dance and exchange. For me, teaching is a practice too. I am happy to hear your feedbacks and further thinking\/practicing. Please get in touch at haolongyin@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is a telegram group for updates and future labs around this topic <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+3YnuHf6UjCU0MTQ1\">https:\/\/t.me\/+3YnuHf6UjCU0MTQ1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page contains some of the resources that I mentioned in the workshop at Leipzig Contact Improvisation Festival 2025. The workshop is inspired by Brian Massumi&#8217;s new book The Personality of Power A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life (2025), and accompanying book Toward a Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life. 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