WIld Production

This might be a term- it's at the haze of my memory somewhere. I'll use it. I use it to refer to production that occurs without the appearance of a prior alienation through the intervention of capital.

The world of living beings is composed of labor. By this I mean only movement that creates relationships between divergent things. Any act of labor is at once an act of hybridization, binding us to a thing and to a process. Labor carries with it the power of pure creation in the universe, because it is precisely this swerving towards another.

Labor is affective movement that composes a local, impermanent heterogeneous community, of people, tools, flows of matter and energy, values, etc. Labor is the cut into a stable world that creates community by disruption, by slicing into the meaning and use of given things and forging new bonds by the slicing.

Labor, any labor, is a community-birthing disruption.

When we speak of wild production, we speak of this function alone, labor as community-forming disruption, assembled into a vast web of disruptions. Unregulated and unmoderated, except by the internal dynamics of the local communities formed by the acts of labor.

When a master stonemason, learned through apprenticeship to other masons, builds a wall, she does so using certain dynamics, certain rules and and principles. Thos principles can come from different sources. Normally, they come from the priorities of employers, their aesthetic whim, tempered by the constraints of the material.

But the master stonemason is capable of another form of production. She is capable of building in line with the values taught her through a laboring community (stonemasons). She is capable of building a wall such that it works primarily to express latent properties of the stone, aesthetic and structural. This is what we mean when we speak of mastery, and this is why we wince when we see inferior work done at the behest of sterile corporate values.

Wild production is what happens when we needn't listen to the boss or paymaster and can instead build according to the logic set up in those cuts of labor, and using the values that resonate around that cut- the values of a laboring community, the principles latent in the materials with which we work, the surrounding conditions of the area and milieu.

Wild production is wild in the sense that it is unalienated, it was never alienated. The laborer always built according to the logic of the cut, the logic of that basic laboring movement.

Wild production is the principle that grounds all creative, innovative, and beautiful work. It is also the principle that is repressed by corporate firms and the state. It is neglected, mined for energy, and corralled like a horse to be broken.

Wild production is what we will loose upon the world when we free ourselves from the judges external and internal that bind us to their Law instead of the values of our craft, the destabilizing and restabilizing logic of movement itself. Wild production is free production.