CHAPTER TEN ~ Tactical Strategies of the | streetwalker/Estrategias Tacticas de la Callejera Macia Lueones “The Spatiality of Theory ‘and polities have often concel ‘up high, looking at oF iiposition. The erucial disengagement social otpovarily the disengagement of political impartiality Fae ory but a disengagement from the concrete It is tee, or mental glf-conceived who are understood to occupy. the sera position inthis view of the social subjected sete we daily survival myopically from tbody to-body engagement. At best, eness is reduced to the tactical agement, the powerful are fo play with the hand-me- f Theoreticians of society themselves as perched social from a disengaged soteuned to me Sain the concreteness wtnace within this concre Benet ylorization of asenga Ge Reoreticia’s brothers: they get ae he Peach other’ imaginaton To a ee conceptions of theorizing and of subj ae eer conceptually erase the possiblity oft Son 1 oeEtance fom the subaltein position and from ith Fein ea eres of body body engagement. Giving central pee iketrmtony/ tact dichotomy sone way of pesforeing Reams, Givens dcoomy ing theory” 10" stale 2 essen to"tactie" erases the poasiblity of theory of see ees Moppresions unless the latest oes the theo- ar ee eetepit cannot understand the logic of the Taine He the statenje postion, The position self occludes 207208 ~ Chapter 10 the very existence of the tactical. To disentangle the dichotomy is not solely a conceptual exercise, since the dichotomy in- forms our practices of resistance. I the field of understanding. of our own activities is conceptually blocked in this way, from ‘within it we cannot intend past its narrow confines. And if we do intend past these confines, in defiance of it logic, we have difficulty in moving the intentions toward a collective form, however dispersed. It is not just a question of publicity or ccounterpublicty, but of sociality in any form, however hid- den. It is a question of praxis, Given the framing of the field of understanding, this writing attempts to unravel, perform, exhibit understandings of our selves and our activities in resistance to both the interlocking. of oppressions and to intermeshed oppressions.' Resistance will be understood always in the gerund, a resisting. Oppres- sion will also be understood as ongoing, The tense relation r- sisting ® oppressing is our focus. Understanding oppression in the gerund does not necessitate a personalized understand ing of oppressing. Impersonal forces can be understood a8 something one lives with and within and they can be under- stood up close without personalizing them and without reifi- 1 propose to embrace tactical strategies in moving in dis ruption of the dichotomy, as crucial to an epistemology of resistance/liberation. To do $0 is to give uptake to the disag- sgregation of collectivity concomitant with social fragments: tion and to theorize the navigation ofits perils without giving uptake to its logic. It is also to seek an epistemology that re conceives intentionality without falling into monological un- dorstandings of either individual or collective agency. Such an epistemology dissociates itself from individualistic perspecti- valism in favor of a more dispersed, more complex, multiple, interactive, uncertain, and necessarily engaged understanding. of the social. It takes up embodied attention to the micro mechanisms of power and their being met with creative resis. tance. And it seeks to follow the paths of resistant intentional- ity in transgression of the tactic/strategy dichotomy. This also requires understanding intentionality as lying between rather ‘than in subjects, subjects that are neither monolithically nor monologically understood. Thus, the meaning, the sense of “Tactical Strategies of the Streetwvalker —~ 209 the intentions cannot be assumed to be always Iyng ssthin tne word ef sense, butas possibly Iying in between worlds of Senso, worlds of sense that are enmeshed with each other, Sven though they may be ideologized as distinct® The “clo- Sere” ofthe ltentone— the aking them 0 some prea though necessarily open ended and femporary completions ‘Tong winded intersubjective project without a master rind ‘without a strategist. Tris ins lin of vision, street-level, among embodied sub- jects withl-defined “edges” that the tacieal strategist Ives ‘eithout myopia. without epistemological political short Tightedices’ Moving intentions within and toward s complex cthectvity recommend the practice of hanging out, 2 street Sralkers practices Ths practice is compatible with devstop- Inga rather large sense of the fernin and is social intricacies Tieawing out permite one to lean, to listen to transmit infor inatgnto Partetpate in communicative crestons, t0 gaUBe posite to have a sense of the directions of intentionality fo gain social depth: Unite enclosures of te socal that are Conceived as loss permeable, hangouts are highly permeable. avis why itis possible #9 move from hangout to hangout without betrayal + swathes pte monn wh ae a de wth ome” The homer “repulse ria ener ry parma freer noe cng ce on ul oy he Fncein tre cont mol among he women who are Me tf Sear kn ny Me, fund company, eo slae Si pri yr Me See hr ht She ote my eon Sie lute women wih whom ahecoult ac aout he silence fein ep PY ops ntiou poy. nthisspataityof home sister steep ation lfinsane Shuman oped he aan yam heap er Peis frowive and ver my, aod meaning te se itis stn fnprat tn tant coverstonn ne treet ao not sb he sate ruts ol brs, ort the anne epee Ths cl jon of wcence ‘Seon he pte rb pe diction aa Ped op (Siac spasm option a the pube/privwe cchotmy Stor in te Scho nt to wll They tbat mn mgeting argu a les st peso opin210 Chapter 10 ‘This theorizing of resistance thus interminges inthe spat ally of the stret, This pivoting of the spatiaty of cognition fadlaly alter what i concevabe. Dont asa pest sna ‘iljrs on compari inthe midst of company, and ablterat ing the theory/practice distinction, tis theoring seeks xt pits out, entrants, invokes, rehearses, performs, considers, En enact tactical atratoge precio of esetant/omancipe tory sense making Performing a ejection of theorizing the S0- ‘lal from above, streetwalker theorizing understand and ‘mover rsstanc to intermeshed oppression or the project to make senee, [is necentary to exercite a duplictou perception that st once unwells and disarm the Conceptual inetitational reduction of reltance fo oppression tothe tactical and takes up the possibilty pf the tactical strate fe, As the understanding of our own feistance i heavily Wile by the strategists plans. and by the deployment of his Power and author, itis important to clear the air ao a tobe SHlboth to understand the space where we ae actively resist ing. ac. worldlymundano, an emancipatory, complesly wold sense of “public” and to take up ts possibilities” 50 {to keep each other resisting subjection and s0 as tokeep the Fesatng long-winded, we need to reconcsive our own activ- iy. This duplicitous move has to be repeated over and over agin, incetanly Agency Late modernity gave rise to the fiction of effective individual agency that fits both the strategist, the powerful, and those who act as managers, foremen, lesser officials, and upholders ‘of its institutional “apparatus.” This fiction hides the institu tional setting and the institutional backing of individual po- tency. In hiding the institutional setting, the narrative of individual agency entices subjects understood as individuals ‘with the power and efficacy Of their deliberations and deci- sions. Valorizing single authorship, individual responsibility, individual accountability, and self determination, freedom is lived as this efficacy of individual agency. Intentionality is un- derstood a8 residing in and emanating from the individual or from monolithic collectivities. These are conceptual devices “Tactical Strategies ofthe Stretwalker —~ 211 that pervade or constitute the underpinnings of dominant thot and legal decourse and they are used in vicious an Tonteaditors ways epainst those who are the subjects of srs tegic contol ‘ir tn conception of ageney, the successful agent reasons pracealy in. word of meaning and within seca, pola ERd weonomie institutions that back him wp and form the amework for his forming intentions that are not subservient {onthe plans of others and that he is able to carry into action Giimpeded and as intended. He shares in some meas the contra of the context in which be forms his tention His Mtemnatives and the direction of his intending reflect his being {shareholder power Successful agency isa mirage of ind Saiuat autonomous. intentional action. What i. illusory ‘comes comprelensible as the reality of power in institation- Site songe reveals the collectivity backing up the individual The oppresed cannot exercise agency since they either enact a pbordinats or a resistant intentionality. The subservi- SEi‘hatare of the intentions. daqualify the oppressed from Speney inthe fit case Lack of naittionl baking disqul 2B Re resister fom having agency. This Tock" i the uci foarce ofthe possiblies of am alternative social. Since the ‘Souder conception of agency a8 autonomous subjectivity ean ot countenance reitance by the oppressed and sine Newrcy ina precondition of modern anderslandings of moral Tereisarce to oppression is conceptually disallowed 2s ‘sats To make clear te possbility of resistance and its cone Tune, T inueduce the concept of “active subjectivity” ‘Though resisters are not agent, they are ative subjects. The Ubertory posetiiti of active subjectivity depend on both haltermotivesocaity arta tactical strategie stance “Tactical-Strategic Troubling of the “Tactic/Strategy Dichotomy Michel de Certeau draws a distinction central to the Practice of Everyday Life betreen tactics and strategies. Strategies are devised by planners, managers, subjects of will and power, rom a point of view that is positioned high above the street, boing able to view the “whole” to be structured, abstracting212 Chapter 10 ‘from the concrete in accordance with scent rationality (de Certeau 1980) Stntegiesalvrays presuppose» "proper" a ‘Place that can be clcunsenibed, and provites "a certain inde ‘enidence frm the variability of circumstances” (de Corte {98550}. The step mate plies though sgh tran orming “foreign forces into objects that can be observed and ‘mensured” (de Cote 198899. Bong able to see far nto the distance, the planer/strntgist can predict. prepare, fate expansions of the “proper constiet “the ction that Inakes che compleuiy ofthe city readable and immobilize its ‘pague mobility in a transparent text” (de Cerone 126892) The urban platiner’s ety, the “concepeclty” isthe strategists “proper "A tactic cannot count on a "propor," itraiher “isi unt lf into the other's place, agmentarly, without tak ling it over in ts entirety, without being able fo keep It ata dlstance” (te Certen 19880). Whatever the tactcan win, “iteannot keep.” Tacilan, the weak, mast always turn alien ‘forces to their own end in devious, hidden makings hidden {tom the strategists frame of refrence—that consti at ‘other production. a production that does not reject or alter tein the weak have no choice bus to: accept but rather Subverts these aystoms by using them f0 ends and references foreign to them (te Certo 1986). ‘De Certests understands the facc/strategy dichotomy in spatial terms The spatialization of each tetin adits conse. Gences i important in disrupting the dichotomy, 1 want fo Eoublethe terms” organisation ofthe spatial Of resistance {0 domination. Though de Certeau draws the dichotomy 1 tinvel! room for rattance by the weak” the resistor ‘zapped by the spatial’ of the dichotomy. In disrupting the dior, 1m particularly keen on intervening inthe dg. ‘ent thatthe oppressed cannot see deeply ito the sta The limervention also reconfgures what 11 (0 see deeply info The strategist “aes” ftom apo of iow charateioed by the distance of height and abstiction He “ees” the immobile iy, but the immobile, nmataie cilya triumph of space ‘ver tne-is presupposed in the relaon sightabetraction. Gltance The immutable iy is both presupposed and res serted asa project of contol. Abstraction and the distance of height “periit a ctonalized secing ofa fctonalized ety — ‘Tactical Strategies ofthe Steetwalker —~ 213 site enept cyto ape ra Tis ate cla ‘i cet otf erat a ee Toe an ry Cr eT Se ee jet ene Sl i propionic ee ce Ce etre214 ~\ Chapter 10 Western model of rationality. These microbe-like operations, de Certeau understands as tactical, dispersed, makeshife mul- Liform, fregmentary, always relative to situations and details, lacking their own ideologies and institutions. These opera tions “bring into play a popular ratio, a way of thinking in- vested in a way of acting. an art of combination that cannot bbe dissociated from an art of using.” De Certeau places these everyday practices of resistance within a rationalized, central- ized, clamorous, spectacular, expansionist production, guided by the logic of power exercised not in its infinitesimal, micro- Political guises but inits strategic form. ‘My intent is not to dismiss but to complicate de Certeau’s description by using within radical political moving a disrup- tion of the tactic/strategy dichotomy so as to understand lev- els of resistance that include what de Certeau calls “the rases Of the week.” De Certeau says that the “weak”’s spatiaity Jacks an immutable place, it lacks a proper. So the weak “in sinuate” themselves into the other's place, “without being able to keep it at a distance.” But if the immutable strategist’s (Proper is a fiction, what is there to “keep ata distance”? There is a confusion here betwoen “keeping at a distance” and being able to perceive, sense, with the distance of depth, depth into the social. One docs not have to keep social rela tionality “ata distance” if one is to see into its depth eis the Jatter that J want to recuperate in theorizing possibilities of standing against oppression that go beyond the “operational combinations” that de Certenu understands as the only possi- bilities for the tactician. Bat the possibilty of the distance of depth lends the tactcian’s ruses another life as it stands an the disruption of the tactic/stratogy dichotomy. ‘So, in de Certeau, “strategy” stands for distance mastered through sight and abstraction, “tactic” stands for lack of dis- tance, conereteness, for shortsighted creations, Without ile- sions, ‘the tactician stands on the treacherous fictional immobility of the master’s proper, and “makes do.” The tacti- ‘eal strategist. on the ocher hand. meets power in the guise of the illusory “concept city,” abstract space, the emptying of ‘space, as swell as in the guise ofits infinitesimal mechanisms. Both are ingredients of "oppressing.” In meeting power in these guises, the tactical strategist Keeps a duplicitous tactile- ~ a “Tactical Strategies ofthe Stretwalker audio-olfactory-visual insight into the depth of the social. The ‘alert embodiment of walking and bumping, among and inte Gach other is of consequence, The tactical strategists’ insigh Jinto the social does not flatten it out as the distance of heigh does. It does not lose sensory contact with it. For the tactica Strategist resisting © oppressing has volume, intricacy, multi plicity of elationality and meaning, and itis approached wit! Sil the sensorial openness and Keenness that permits resistant liberatory, enduring, if dispersed, complexity of connection." ‘uctical strategic active subjectivity is explored here 10 from the outside, but from within a streetwalking multitud that moves creatively in spaces that are neither the “nowhere of de Certeau's tactics nor the “proper” of the strategist’s While for de Certeats the mobility of the tactician rests on the absence of a proper, and thus it privileges tine over space, the Spatio-temporalty of the tactical strategist is the mobile spat ality of the street lived not as a “nowhere” but in “hang: outs.” There is no possiblity of an aestheticization of politics througha mythification of place that calls forth a transcending of history here, The logic of tactical strategies makes possible recreation of spatiality that constitutes it as # form of what Caren Kaplan calls a “working in and against the local” (Kaplan 1996-180). “A contemporary rereading ofthe tactical glosses it as crim nal, deviant, abnormal, in need of containment, or alterna: tively, as frivolous and inconsequential, not a matter for serious revolutionary theorizing. The degree of accountability for deviation depends on an axymoronic construction of devi ant “subjects,” as agents that stand outside of the possibility ofagency. Without a conceptual alternative to the late modern notion of agency, resistant negotiations of meaning, are re- Uuced to haphazard, happenstance, disjointed intrusions on dominant sense, a troubled sort of passivity. And, surely, re sistance cannot be conceived or enacted by the moder agent, tho has no need, and no conceptval room for it in his domain, T propose the concept of active subjectivity for the activity of those who disturb the abstract spataity of social fragmen- tation. As I look at lived spaces with an eye for more than ephemeral refigurements of spatialities and possibilities or- dered by institutions and mechanisms of repression, I explore216 ~ Chapter 10 the possibilities open by a depth of inhabitation and under- standing of the social, more enduring inhabitations than “making do.” In proposing, the notion of active subjectivity coupled with that of tactical-strategies and a renewed under- standing of intentionality, Iam exploring the opening of logi- cal paths in order to refigure the possibilities of the oppressed from within the complexities of the social. In disrupting the tactic/strategy, time/space dichotomies, | am navigating the “space-time, other-time-other-space of the calleera, which is neither the borrowed space of the time-tied tactician nor space-strategist dominion, but the other timespace of the hangout, the calfejerd’s uncharted newspace-time” (oshua Price, personal communication). Intentions Resistant intentions are given form necessarily intersubjec- tively. If intentions are “of a subject” or “in a subject.” that is, if they are formed in and emanate from a subject, is that sub- ject collective or individual, a unitary or fractured one, a sin- ular or a multiple subject? What isthe time and space of the intending? Does a unitary individual intend at 2 particular time and do the intentions carry into the individal’s act and are communicated successfully given the presuppositions of public sense and taken to completion? Given my revisiting of Agency and the politics of agency, an account of intentions that understands them as in and emanating from a unitary, indi vidual, simple subject who makes public sense to others, cap- tures the sense of intendling of agents, shareholders in the meanings made by power. But this understanding of inten- tionality is useless in moving against oppression. All one has to do is to try to move with people against oppression, to un- derstand oneself as not able to intend in this sense. What Lam proposing is a viable sense of intentionality for moving against the interlocking of oppressions that animates oppres: sions as intermeshed. As I unveil the collectivity backing tp the individual, Iam pointing not just to the illusory quality of the individual, but to the need of an alternative sociality for resistant intentionality. Intending may “feel” as arising in a subject, but surely the production of intentions is itself a hap- ‘Tactical Strategies ofthe Streetwalker ~~ 217 Ihazarel and dispersed social production. Subjects participate in intending, but intentions acquire life to the extent that they exist between subjects. The trick of individual intentionality Ties in making one believe that if one intends into the hege- ‘monic systems vein, one is the author of those intentions and of actions invested with their point. But standing, against that illusion, in transgression of its sense, intending against its fgrain, requires taking up a multitude of lines that constitute analternative and complex sociality. ‘The relation among active subjectivity; intersubjective, dis. persed, heterogenous intention formation; and the tactical Strategic forms a tight citcle of possibility on the move. Active subjectivity is possible because of alternative socialities that have an nseen, hidden quality to them, even if they live in the worldliness of the street, unseen from the conceptual pers ppectivism of strategic understandings of power. Active subjec- tivity is alive inthe activity of dispersed intending in complex, heterogeneous collectivities, within and between worlds of complex sense. The activity is not subservient or servile but in transgression of dominant sense, The dispersion includes a dispersion of meaning through a translation that does not rest fon equivalences between words but on worldly connections in living in transgression of reduction of life to the monosense oF domination, ‘There is room for expectations here. We do not approach each other either as blank slates or as thoroughly created in every encounter but rather in the tension of a history of op- pressing © resisting. Some expectations are necessary. But ex pectations are very different from presuppositions. Expecting, {particular sense leaves a great deal of room for redirection, for “translation” in this renewed and complex sense, a sense that makes clear that history does not have to ossify meaning, This may appear as an attenuated sense of intentionality, but it isa strong sense when understood as in active resistance to the interlocking of oppressions. It is sensorialy rich, alive in the midst of different worlds of sense, multiple histories and ‘multiple spatial paths. The histories and spatialties intersect in a liveliness of possibilities of connection and direction that can bear the fruit of a moving that is intentionally tense with complexity.~ Chapter 10 ‘The tactical strategic is crucial here as the incarnate, sensori- ally open, ability to have depth of insight into the complexities of the social. That depth of insight characterizes the tactical strategic. The resistant spatiality dismantles the barriers that keep the oppressed from bursting out of the confined spaces and confined desires that define the boundaries of creative re- bullions and tired compliances, The tactical strategist acquires a practiced, long sense of the social spatiality of particular re- sistances and resistant meanings. The tactical strategist partici- pales in intencling as a long lived social act Intentions move and mutate within a changing sociality. Thus, the resistant spatiality is unsettled, There is a high degree of uncertainty here, As we move from tactics to tactical strategies we move from ephemeral contestatory negotiations of sense to more sustained engagements ‘That the actions of the active subject can successfully be in- terpreted from within resistant sense, extra-institutionally in the sense of not abiding by the logic of particular institutions, is what testifies to a failure of dominant sense to exhaust the possibilities of sense, to exhaust meaning, The invisibility of resistant sense from within dominant sense is also its advan- tage as resistant. This is clear when we understand that resis- tant sense cannot reside in “the individual” as the institutional backing that makes possible the appearance of individuality, is absent. And so the backing for individual agency hides sistant sense. The distinction between agency and active sub- jectivity permits one to capture these different logics andl to evaluate and interpret as resistant activity that which other ‘wise appears as inactivity, disengagement, or nonsensical, The strectwalker theorist keeps both logics in interpretation but valorizes the logic of resistance as she inhabits differentiated geographies carrying with others contestatory meanings raxical completion. Ina society in which there are dominators and dominated, oppressors and oppressed, this model describes oppressors a8 successful agents, though individual potency is a sham. The oppressed may be able to engage in some acts that could be described! as successful acts of agency, but most oftheir acting will fail in this regard because oppression is encompassing and aifects the meaning of activities as apparently uncompli- Tactical Strategies of the Streetwalker ~~ 219 cated a eating a meal or going to bed a night, Eating posole tray be a resistant activity sleeping by onesel may Be rss {an activity caring one's eye in ones hans can bea real fant activity talking to strange can be a vestant activity This the Insight ofthe callers, Conceiving of resisters as delve subjects enables one t0 articulate, make explicit one's otcing the colletviy of active subjects—however, ds persed backing up one’s active subjectivity as one makes Eense among and with others, and also ii absence, and how teatsence tnders nw's word, gestures, movements nonsen Stal The autonomous agent aks all the socal backing of his sense for grated, as wel ste social efficacy of fis agency The notational setup, thelangoage he "comenon” practices tre gored as they fri te ramowork for thi aston of dividual creativity and originality, thie noebtco-no one, Els Tack of sci ink, “The active subject treads in the fragility of sense at every step conscious of recogrtion or lack fi searching for back pr aware of the Ick national back up at every tan ‘The postbty of being found unintelgible hunks in macy i terecions nthe midst ofthe unsoctllty of her sense, he may find moments of solitude restful, But there Hs s need and an tncitement to being understood in intersubjective encounters: {sense of touching shove of bathing nelesn seater, a ge torrun and leaps smile within, Ant One also lens Yo be warded about cay cognitions. One grabs for seat life to ord, performances signs marks that are sometimes beyond The ple and sequires an appreciation frie lived a the mae fins of common sence: the oulaw, the despised, the useless, fhesingane the hustlers, the poachers, the pickers of garbage, the urban roma of the roronttate spatial of fhe cy Scapes defy and unmask common sense. The fae iste in tne the contempt icilled in ane for these posible, one ‘places witha cautious fenders, an opentens 9 fered ‘ence and being reread in turn Tn tactical state intensity, the subject that resist inter Iocke and inermesned oppresions ia the momect Of = SSriance an active subjeet Tocca strategic Intending Complenydivetonal and intersubjective andersanding of frtentonatity, nan emancipatory direction, is pone be220 ~~ Chapter 10 ‘ween resistant subjects. Both the formation of the emancipa- {ory resistant intentions and the efficacy of those intentions in informing action partially depend on the attention each re- sister pays to the other resisters forming the intentions, The practice of moving against the path of social fragmentation does not presuppose fluency in one’s tongue, but rather a ‘more fully sensorial attentiveness to the making of resistant senses along the path.” Hangouts, am looking for a spatial politics that emphasizes difference. That is, 1 am looking for intersections where subaltern sense is fashioned in the tense encounters with dominant sense and ‘here ongoing crossings between multiple resistant worlds of sense are sometimes tentatively, sometimes powerfully en- acted. Those resistant worlds of sense are fashioned in the op- pressing resisting relation, In defiance of the monadic, atomistic, homogeneous construals of sense in dominant terms, each world of sense is a tense confluence of multiple local and translocal histories of meaning elaborated in the re- sisting & oppressing relation, sometimes in collaborative resis- tance across worlds of sense. Tam looking for a spatialty that does not mythify territorial enclosures and purities of peoples, languages, traditions, AS | think of such conditions, lam proposing the spatial practice of hanging out because i is one practice that is in transgeession of territorial enclosures, Hanging out is always a hanging out ‘with/among others in an openness and intensity of attention, Of interest, ‘sensorially mindful in each other's direction. Movement from hangout to hangout promotes complexity in design and aids the carrying intentions to tentative and open- fended completions deep info the social and institutional fal ric, Hanging out opens our attention to transmutations of sense, borders of meaning, without the enclosures and exclu sions that have characterized a polities of sameness.* Hanging out, as used here, isa practice of persistent “appro- priation of space," a tactical strategic activity that informs Space against the constrial of hounded territories that mythol- ‘ogize sameness, The occupation of space is defined by move- Tactical Strategies ofthe Streetwalker —~ 221 ment in and between hangouts where resistant sense was/is made in practice by active subjects, Streetwalker theorists cul- tivate the ability to sustain and create hangouts by hanging out, Hangouts are highly flsid, worldly, nonsanctioned, com- ‘unicative, occupations of space, contestatory retreats for the passing on of knowledge, for the tactical-strategic fashioning, Of multivocal sense, of enigmatic vocabularies and gestures, for the development of keen commentaries on structural pres sures and gaps, spaces of complex and open ended recogni tion. Hangouts are spaces that cannot be kept captive by the private/public split. They are worldly, contestatory concrete Spaces within geographies sieged by and in defiance of logics ‘and structures of domination® The streetwalker theorist tvalks in illegitimate refusal to legitimate oppressive arrange- ments and logics. Intense negotiations, she is watchful of op- portunities taken up in the devious interventions of the oppressed. Common Sense La callejera looking for company focuses most intently on the hostilities, discontinuities, and possibilities of connection and sense making among [as/los'atravezadas/os~"those who ross over, pass over, oF go through the confines of the “normal. The walking/theorizing defamiliarizes “common sense,” as the “common” backing it up loses its unseen, or taken for granted, part of the fumiture of the universe, quality. The Common is all around and in her as both upheld and defied. TThe polities and fictitious quality of the common are clarified as the callejera, who is prepared for the unmaking and remak- ing of sense and thus for participation in a delicate produc- tion, is assumed by and as everyone else around her, to be fluent in sturdy common sense. She is assumed to be part of the common that backs up commen sense, pressed into being ‘complicit with the ease and carelessness of interlocution, all meaning presented as ready-made for compliant consumption and as heavy with its own propriety. The words and gestures seem not to break or dissolve easily, their solid meanings car~ ried by an enormous collectivity constituting and legitimating,222 ~ Chapter 10 their institutionalization. Meanings and institutions thus ap- pear reified, objectified, taken out of the danger of interlocu- tion, La callejora can both sense the reality and fiction of the com- mon in daily interaction as well as the multiple contestations fof the common and of its sense. She is ready for multiple meanings being elaborated interactively, The daily negotia- tions of streetwalkers, pedestrians, draw trajectories that con- cretize, differentiate space, that defy its abstract production and administration.” They also reveal the presuppositions of Abstraction and its being constituted by an interchangeability fof all terms, and thus a homogenization of sense and an ab- sence of dialogical sense making. Space becomes concrete as it becomes crisscrossed by a multiplicity of meanings. The rul- tiple interactive contestations of the common in common sense, in geographies constantly redescribed, reinscribed, con- cretize space. Interchangeability of terms becomes a polities that the callejera participates in subverting and in so doing she contests her own reduction to passivity or frivolity “The strectwalker theorist in search of tactical/strategic defi- ances cultivates an ear for multiplicity in interlocution: mult plicty in the interactive process of intention formation, in perceptions, in meaning making, The ear for the powerful so- ction of common sense is also prepared for listening to new sense, remade, intervened, contested sense by those who are rot agents. In a fragmented society, contestatory interactions often contest univocally along one axis of domination. Strate- ically, Ja callejera begins to hear the power of the logie of Uunivocity and the multiplicity drowned by univocal contesta- tions. She devises the tactical/strategic practice of hearing in- teractive contestatory acts of sense making as negotiated from within a complex interrelation of differences, She hears con. testations that are univocal as at the same time defiant of and compliant with the logic and systems of domination, Streetwalker Theorizing Streetivalker theorizing is a practice of sustained intersubjec- tive attention. Its a tactical strategic practice. We understand street-level, face-to-face, how to address each other as more “Tactical Strategies ofthe Streetwalker —~ 223 than and in tension with whom ve are as subjected, op- esse Cognizing resistance nthe resisting oppressing r= inion is tved in two tones the being pressed—the inhaling moment and the pressing the exhaling moment One une dorstands te being pressed into intermeshed opprssions and by the interlocking of oppressons. The cognition fs resistant Shoe it antclpates the exhaling moment of inhabiting oneself ts etve as partkipating inthe staining or binging eran Cipmtory intentions info being. But one does nok stand stil passively inhabiting the terran of being peste. The practice ron of spatorsocn nhabitation that fem resistance to termeshed oppresions and tothe interlocking of oppression tr both moments of vesitance, Resisting oppressing su derstood av interactive, social, boy to body, ongoing a his ndertanding. resisting can be shor lived ce tea be Tong td wide inf socially It can be nonveactive, provoked bY ahd provoking along, deep, incisive understanding of urea Consecton ane ofthe movement of intentions and compa ning prec comintients and ingens Tosey that oppressionsintermesh or conlesce isto say that no opprtsing mols and redoe a person untouched by and Spat rom other oppresings that mod snd reduce he. Re Sioing intermeshed oppression Ys activity in response t0 forces traning one into rlfaceted, subservient, Inhabit stirs of powered Intereubjectve spaces Oppressons i telock sven the socal mechanism of oppression fagment the oppressed both as individuals and collectives. Socal fragmentation ints individual and collective inkabiatons Is the accomplishment ofthe interocking of oppressons™ Inter- locking is conceptually possble only if oppressions are under Sood as separable as deere, pure Intermeshed oppression Cannot be cogently understood as fragmenting subjects ether ts individuals or as collectives, Thus, the interlocking of ppressons ia mechaaisn of contol retin, smmattzn fiom disconnection that-goes beyond intermeshed oppres- sions. Its not merely an ideological mechanism, but the Categoria training of Raman beings into homogencous fr45- sents grounds in categoria mind frame. ntrocking possible only ifthe inseparsbllty of oppressons Is diogused The polit of disguising intertneshed oppresions Brough224 ~ Chapter 10 inerlocking discrete fragments of subjected subjects, ar disa bling, Understanding tre macabre cenncction fetween thes calls for efigured spabaity that exhibits the impurity in and among us the heterogenety. The horiying coupling of inter meshed oppresing an of interiocking oppressions les in te Formation of «conceptual maze that is very dificult to nave gate. At every point, it seems as if in order to resist inter- Teshed oppressions, we must bind categoria, so ve loud Our own heterogenelty and yield to-a categoria seltunder= standing, The facial strategic tsk i highly Complicated by the coupling. Everywhere we tum we Bind te interiocking of ppressions disabling ux from perceiving and resisting O>- Pressions as intermeshed. Disentanging te old thatthe co pling has on our relations to each ote a central level of the Eomplexty of endiring attention of streetwalker theorizing ‘The emotional tonality ofthis aspect of steetivelkertheore: ing is central tots enduring and foits enduring with cat. “The streetwalker theorist callvates a maltiplity and depth of perception and connection and “hangs out” even in well dofined institutional spaces, toubling and subverting their logics their intent. Ae resistant, contestatory negotiations make sense within and give life to different frameworks of Sense, ciferent logics an different world() of sense that are nol countenanced by Insttationalied, dominant, “offical Sense, the strectwalker theorist cultivates an car and a tongue for multiple ines of meaning, Her knowing is necessarily diay Toga: 1 doesnot le in her. esa cltvation of memory in ite poll-ogial, poli-vocalcomplesty that has an ant utopian direction to the future. ee * satel horzing, then i usin in the mit of we concrete. To say that tis actical-sttategic engagement i tony that one places takes up follows, aids resistant emare Cipatory intentions inthe mist of active, resisting subjects ‘who are indispensable to each oer if ther intending sto ine form their social realty. Tactical strategies of making sense aganstfin spite ofin the midetof domination pedestrian syle make room or and sustain along and wide socal sense of re flstant intentionality, a sense with a history. Tactical suateges ‘of making sense against/n spite ofn the midst of domination siso sustain an open, inthe-making socality atthe street ove, Tactical Strategies of the Streetwalker —~ 225 no sense of “the whole” except as an imposing, intruding, de eit and powerful fiction. Stectvaker theorizing countenancesno possibilty of make sng ristant sense except among people, site sense cannot be Piesapposedao itis with dominant sense even when there Pr runt connection with an actively peopled istry of = Euan uence melang, Thus, the steetwalker theorist develops SMCs nse of the inadequacy of an individualist under Stanling of agency intentionality, and meaning to one's situa. lon, She ako dovelops a sense of spatial complexity that Cannot be perceived bythe strategist because it eannot De co Give from the strategists location thus revealing the con- Structedness of abstract space and is politcal commitments, She develops, maintains, communicates a duplicitous percep- dion that cotemporancously perceives the stmategist’ and the thecal seategisty conceived or lived spaces. The srtegit ‘Wehr is impresed in her eyes through domination. Her per- Uiption in constituted through # double inhabitation of the ‘fhee that fragments and ofthe space constituted in atonal movement. Thus, she understands the strategy in the tactic/ Trtegy cichotomy “vicariously.” ‘Becuse of is steatlevel location, streotwalker theorizing intervenes in between the tacti/strateyy dichotomy, Iechoed by other seetvalker theorists, the intervention would unset fh the sense mveribed in the dichotomy that tactics are both pnemerat redirections of the spocieites of the ruling onder Sha that sey constitute all te negotiating room available to the oppressed in their encounters with domination. In the thedaldcome serve inserted by the streetwalker theorist at Uulstategics arediawn, devise, in interaction, encuentro. 3s i pedesttan, a callgjerain appreciation of dally tactic fsa ABS cruel egpectof stretwalker theorizing isto uncover, onsier, Tear, pass on knowledge of tne mallple tools of t= Sal strategiss in having deep spatio-temporal insight int the wea As Srstegsts have deviced maps chronometers, and Stier toss of sumistration and conte, tia states multiply messages deep into the socal fabric by writing on Toney using cao radios, speaking inthe sje of vendors on Theany of tamsportation, weting on walls, paging, ard using Clectronie mall, An important aspect of pasing on knowledge226 ~ Chapter 10 sn hangouts is this passing on of tools of resistance that enable tus to see deeply into the secial from the pedestrian level Pivoting the spatiality of theorizing enables us to see the possibility of tactical strategies and the tie between the strate- Bint’ location and domination or the maintenance of domina- Bon. But itis also clear that the tactical alone will not do to go Deyond survival. Tactical strategies require a renewed sense of alive subjectivity and sociality, a reading of structures of Jomination from below, reading the resistant social with Gepth, leis this combination that enables one to go beyond tmaking do.” As strategies and tactics will not do for resis- tance, neither will the late modem understanding of agency. in disrupting the dichotomy, this theorizing countenances ‘and participates in resistant meaning making by understand- ing agency as unimportant in tactical strategic living. It also participates in resistant meaning making advancing the notion practive subjectivity as the subjectivity of resisting ¢ oppress ing. Tactical strategies signify a sense of focus, a sense of the turge to go beyond survival and thus the urge to mark hang duis where to concoct the bursting out of confinement, Tactical Strategies signify the willingness and urge to ponder the larger ponsbiities fo be milked from well-practiced, epherneral, de- Fious remakings of the point, sense, and possibilities of the prolucts of the dominant orders of production, cultural pro- Ruetions included. Tactical strategies invoke the willingness Sand urge to tzamar, tramoyar” to concoct in complex com pany una tama, a sturdy and complex weave/plet that Gocan’t leave structures of domination untouched. “The use of “I” inn much of this text and my own self presenta tion as a stzeetwalker theorist have an arrogant cast to them that Lam wary of. 'speak the “T” at the level ofthe street and seinoving through multiple encounters, geographico-histor al paths to indicate the subversion of the theory/practice éi- Chotomy and to express the writing itself asa tactical-strategic interactive performance. The third person seems to me to hide Tactical Ste ses of the Sreetwalker 227 that the writing is itself an encounter, nonsensical apart from Gialogue, heavily touched by uncertainty. The third person fonda toward removal toward a metapositionality that takes fone out of the action. “The “T" isa misdescription of formation of dispersed and complex collectivity. The “I” in this piece is in company and Sttvely looking for company. The subject is semisolitary though it meets up and wants to meet up with others, The Subject is looking: Future tense. “I-we” captures the looking Torcompany-butthe enduring not-yet-folfilled quality of the subject which also mitigates the “arrogance” and exemplifies the looking-to-dismantle quality. I-we is an iconic index. An Indes because Lis mefthe callejera, the author of the piece: I invan icon because Lwe represents both the intention of this Chapter--to make movernent from I to we~as well as caper ing that movement as “in a picture.” The subject of this chap- tee js this Lwe, or alternatively I we, where the arrow Signifies the transitional quality and dispersed intentionality of the subject. 1 (lowe, | -> we) seck out/put out/rehearse the dismantling, of the theory/practice and the tactic/strategy binaries, of the fromeabove and at a distance political interventions, of the tearing only ready-made sense, of the quieting of multivocal- ity and policrhythmic contestations and the concomitant frag mnentation of our subjectivities and possibilities, ofthe loyalty To abstract space, depersonalization and interchangeability, of ‘SQmmon sense, of the aestheticization of politics, of the fasci- fation with those who dominate us. On the possibilities side, Tentatively provoke a sense of contestatory interactive inter subjective sense making as processual and located. I ground it at the street level, in highly qualitatively differentiated spaces. ‘As | seek out, put out, rehearse, consider tactical strategies of emancipatory sense making, I move between the solitary Gh the celleetively social, two sides of resistance, I think of joople atthe time of tentative, often ill defined and not quite vefulable intention formation: with whom, how, where, in the inidst of what constraints and openings, negotiating what materials, words, sounds, touch, movements, gestures. I think Of the nonlinear joumey of the sign-word/gesture/movernent228 ~\ Chapter 10 enunciated there and of the concerted, disjointed struggle to make it make sense without dropping it ike a delicate thing that is to be something, at some point in the journey.» Something will not come to mean quite What it scemed t0 us, as we tentatively intended, as intentions get redrawn, re- fashioned historically and intersubjectively in ways that give the new sense a complex sociality. The new sense may surpass our own initial creativity and inspire us further or disappoint tus oF make us despair or enrage us into new movernentjour neys of meaning in the geographies of contestatory encoun- ters, To follow thoughtfully the journey of the sign-word/ges- ture/movement into new meaning is to walk lots of veredas ‘atonce, from hangout to hangout, not one long grand connect- ing highway. Univocity stands erect as deflecting resistant cre- ativity. But the collective, complex journey may contain many such moments of deflection, Careful not to drop the sigh (word, gesture, movement), we find ourselves negotiating not just the seductions of common sense and the power of sirpli- fication, but also the dlffculties of hearing multivocalities and poli-zhythms in the contestatory negotiation of these barriers. ‘A complex intersubjective context for sense making cannot be presupposed in this journey. Rather, it is part of the pro- cesses and the histories of contestatory, emancipatory sense ‘making and its itself made and produced in the process. Our traditions and histories provide antecedents in the formation ff intention ut these traditions and histories do not overde- termine the journey nor the tentative formation of intention nor the closure of intention because as we focus on exercises of active subjectivity, the past is revisited as multiple and re- made in the present act of putting out the word, gesture, ‘movement and moving, it from tongue to tongue, from hand to hand, from place to place.” we, I = we see the possibility of resistant, anti-utopian, interactive multiple sense making among atravesados/ atravesadas who are streetivalker theorists in encounters at the intersections of local and translocal histories of meaning, fashioned in the resisting © oppressing relation. Sense making. in lively cultural modes that take issue with domination in tense inside/outside/in-between conversations, interactions ‘Tactical Strategies ofthe Stretwalker —~ 229 that take in and also disrupt, dismantle, dominant sense. The preferred techniques and practices of meaning production and Communication presuppose little expectation of being under- Stood and are highly tentative. “Tentative” is used here in its literal meaning of a tactile sensing of the terrain” with a readiness to reroute, rephrase, gesture, word, move ina multi- plicity of ways, idioms, directions, a refracting of the sign as if Erying to find, and being attentive to finding, recognition. ‘There is no common language, no common expectations, ne reason to assume trust oF trust worthiness, no comfortable Wwomb-warm sense of safety and of having come home. What prompts one is a risk-full sense of opportunities, of possibil- Fes to be rendered artfally concrete, imminently social, insidi- ously and positively pragmatic, What prompts the social inhabitation of the forbidden pesitionality is the very com- pany of those marked as unacceptable or beneath respect, a Company one has learned to reread as issuing different, un- conventional, and tesistant interpretations of hegemonical ‘meaning structures. Walking Hlegitimately tend with a reflection of what pulls ws into a frenzy of recog- hizabe. politcal ctivity, recognizable ia dominant terms Sueetlevel socality can provide a despatsing, demoralizing “picture” of ive complexes and depth of oppression and of the barrie to emancipatory change. There is desire 10 imbue oneself with a see of power agains this demoraliza- tion, Not infrequently, the pedestrian theorist is tempted to favor a mode ef comportment that spe the langues of [Sutems of oppression sucking within them redress of asss- dace, Ths temptation seduction is understandable ahd! ubig Situs. We feta mood fo demand equality, respect, and justice totin@ particular dominant consfual of sense, even if that Sense concoptualy materially requves that equally, respect Shu justice be mechanisms congrent with fragmentation and omtination “The opprested, erased, subordinated, abused, criminalized negotiate thet survival in many spaces inluding “support” fancies of socal contro.” The pedestsian theorist i often230 Chapter 10 ‘overwhelmed into legitimating these agencies by leaming to eam a living in them and thus gaining from-above access to the oppressed. This provides a systemic sense of self-respect —a protector, leader, realist self-image that misses but also often eflects the devious in the negotations of survival. Living within the ambiguously contestatory, pliant encounters, carry= ing horizontally the strategic emancipatory possibilities of ‘meanings in the making is replaced by a no-nonsense, work- ‘manlike, “realist” busyness inside the strongholds of small- time power. Building or working for community economic de- velopment organizations, battered women shelters, crisis lines, legal advocacy centers, homeless shelters, and alterna- tive organizations for wayward “youth,” lobbying for equal rights for the deviant reconceived as a version of the normal provide a sense of purpose as one deploys the homogenizing language of the therapeutizing of politics, of expertise, of so- cial control. It is a difficult path to walk illegitimately within organiza tions devised purposefully to attain redress of injustices, ot @ backto-the-fold sense of self-esteem, or a share of the re sources due to “productive members of society.” The possibil- ities of participating fully in the logic of modern conceptions of justice and sociality stand in our way. They give us a face, character, an authority, a worth, a value “system.” These are almost unbearably seductive. On the bodies andl souls of con- temporary America’s marginales,” politcal” strategists play at rearranging and justifying the divisions of the spoils of social “cooperation.” In the process, they must rearrange and rede- fine who is left out of any shares. The process does not include those to be sacrificed. Los marginales: mestly folk of coler, with and without "pa pers,” with and without housing of any sort, permanently out of jobs, young and old, women and men, queer, battered women and children who “left kim’ to live in America’s streets, the raped, the vialated, those left aut of any of the "so- cial” goods produced by and for more stable folk, Las margi- rales. folk who threaten the safety, decency, sanity, ‘orderliness of poor barrios and bourgeois strongholds. The quiet retreats from the ugliness and anxiety of America have become contested. They cannot be taken for granted by any- ‘Tactical Strategies ofthe Stretwalker > 231 one with a job, particulasy ifthe job holier i of color, queer, ‘Working in industrial job or an ever-so-atterable woman Conctpts, ways of dolng things, instutions, values that conceal, mati and play determi eee late, and justify oppression submerge, surround, inn ake curtis, tancerbe the steerer theo. Tey form a deep, invisible, framework, encasing every move and gesture, every Justification. The streetwalker theorist must Freakout of these “confines ofthe normal.” These confines are the background and texture of the lonely era, unnccompar ned, selkimportant,“seltmade” subjectivity that constitutes modern agency. The stectwalker is someone who comes 1 tderstond, trough ajanring, vivid awareness of being bro Fen int fragment tha the casing by pastcular oppressive tyetems of nearing Isa proces one can Sonecionay adc Cally rest within tncertainy orto which one ean passively Shandon oneselt, One understands this passivity as fevealing thelusoey quality ofthe closare of donsnating serae, under Stands ita. technique of domination, The steetwalkertheo- Fit asks over and over again: Within which. conceptual {nilogical, institutional, material et of Tintalons Is the ‘meaning ofthe possible belng construed? Notes 1. Thank Maryn Feye for lenge to question the pase “inter locked oppresions” She plated out gh, at lnerockng does nt Bie ine oad ature ofthe things nelovied In HkeabethSpelaas swords docs not toute the "pop bead” melapysics Speman 8629) Tote“iterneshedtcptre eeparabliy, A enh esl to ch se tray, ut wast out | think the bat tap have tat theconlacence of and water emulsions. Se chap 6 "Pury, Fy, and Separation”) inthis volume Here, 1 seek to citnguith ner Inethed opps fom the inkrlocking of oppresions snd ‘fer theory of festance to both. The intocing of opprestions ea err {eaarof the prov of ol ragmeration nce agmenttionmqures sot ust shade or fragments ofthe vac, but at each fngeent be ied eed. tomse harbedged, inerally homogenco, bounded pelont of other equally bound ard homogenous shards Sas Robert Ea at lls Shoat characeroton of plycett ltr {Sam ae Shoat 199) en ean Cros ect (959 fra282 > Chapter 10 conction between what J call the “interlocking of oppressions” and ‘olonalism /Burocentism, 2 In Dominion and the Arte of Resistance Hidden Transcripts, jases ‘Scot (190) makes clear that his analysis of inftapoitcs applies ony tothe cave of personalize forces. He ie interested in questions of address and resistance and when the rassripts are public and when hidder ln my se, Tam not ony intersted in quostons of adres, though questions ff address and response are important tothe prasial ask. But lam also Intestin resistance to the impersonal, say, for example, resistance tO ‘he tour industry ints concreteness in New Mexico or Tara, t take up two contasting examples That industy as aces, but iis als consti empersonally but concretely by te movement of global capital by the con crete complesitis ofthe meanings f land across Several systems of sgnif- ‘3. Fora theorising of the meaning of “Social agientation” se chap ter 6 "Party, Impurity nd Separation”) in this vue {4 in Lexa History laa Designs (2000), Walle Mig proposes “ilanguaging” te dlarupt what he unveils as @ modem /colonial way of thinking about language that inks language fo territory snd se relation Ships between the people speaking a given language and their sense of denifcation sith themselves and ther tertory (Mignolo 20002565), ‘Blanguaging enables him to think “in between and Beyond languages.” IMignolo relator bilanguaging to ways of le at the “erck inthe global process betwean leat stones and global designs” (Mignolo 20001030), 1 aicern important relations etwoen what I call “worlds of sense” and ‘what Mignoo calls “languaging” and between ilanguaging and making nse at the intersection between worlds of sense. Both ge beyond ane fag to lived realities and ways of Lie 5 it shld be clear From the str thatthe “tactical strategist” Is not “The Theoeat” as spar from those who ooupy the spaility of the stret, undestoedl as "Her Objects of Study Cum Reusable Rabble” That separa- tion requires both the tactcstrtegy and the theory/practice dichotomies “Asthose dichotomies ave pasialy undercut there Isno subjectibject is tintin to be dravn inthe theorizing andl no theorizing apart from prac= tice, But that does not ena that everyone ia teal srtepst since nok every trargrestes the tatty dichotomy fn ther Bving We all live within the dlehosomy, but swe can asa live in ranegresson ff log “6. Ise “duplicitous in both oft senses. Thus the perception Is beth ‘double perception and devious, 7. The sense of “pbc” that Ihave in mind isnot one that addresses iecly or immediatly the inhabitants ofthe bourgeois pubic sphere im Habermas's sense and thus nota “counterpublic” in Nancy Fraser's (1997) ‘or Maria Pa Lar's (199) senses in both oftheir ates counterpublc- ‘Tactical Strategies ofthe Streetwalker ~~ 233 sy is understood to adres the bourgeois public however mest and Towever oppontionaly, See "Melicutallm and Puy” (ypaie Bn, 1(9/175 82). Novice tat the stret, though 6 not spare fom ‘em challenges the selgation of home othe private, The negotiations {redone “in puble® though they are mecgrzabie rom the lane Si srtog’s locaton, Ths unecogizatay is undrtond as acta Steep vantage ‘in Lechian Ethic (1988), Seah Hoagland offers an important tiga of the moder understanding of ageney tha she etic sth ‘tating of agency under heterextnim, She noduces the concept Fagen tinder oppeion Hore Tandon the concep of gene al fever an inoie the concept of active sjectvty becuse Twa © ‘Sits gente lapercion of tesionaiy ond Bcnune want fo tess the esting of oppesing & reiting 3 Ik" Respore to Lesa Ethics Why Es” Mary Fy (190) ngs that the tel or en eta seth roe clas aa 7} See fear es a paso and station hat would aie ol ng se occupying, certain. posta in certain socal orders” (eye Tots) she ogvcs thet inthe partes fe esi and feminist onmmurities in which she resides aes senso learn todo without {Rhieerurely and vether to reste a new space "much father fom our ‘Sheon father’ home, where righ on ‘gu? no longer cs nto com Siuing oar tal daughternoode’ Eye 19115) “a Borwon Massey (1990) le sthat almost any ideotogy bsedon an A/Not A chon effective in resting change. Tove whore ner ‘Einding of society sled by such seology Bnd very har to cncee rhe pony o allemative forms of sol order (hired poss) ‘The patcalr dichotomy she agus agua the tie spe dchotomy. Faer than colapee the diference betwoen space ad tne she agus that space ae ie are nent Interwoven (Massy 1982). De Cer tens depiction o he srtey eacie dichotomy Feature the tne/ space “lenotomy cently. Foran important dics ofA/-A denotes Mariya Pye 0993) TH. See bay Faye, The Pcs of Realty (1988.68, for an icine dtecripten of is oie 2 Compore David Tarvey (190: 27,244 250, 253 Walter Migr 19952809), an chap 6 (Pry, Ispury and Separation" sis Sohne "nfs cussion of indvidal times and spaces in sci, David avey seen in De Cenc’ loge an nsportant corrective oucsls Cropolcs of power Thowp for Foucault there arene relatos of power ‘Tuhout resistance, sd thong he proposes heterotopias” a paces of Tstanec and son” his cxploratone cpnazeechriques of scp2M Chapter 10 rather than practices of local resistance (Harvey 1990213). Theontolo- fier ofrenstance In Foucoltand De Carer sam to me compate TH Masry’ alienate tthe spacetime sicotomy fe mporan bere Her view that space and te (space sane) are inxencbly linked eli ques the "view of sot as 3 alice which ves tough tne” Fe poral movemt is lo spatial Space rconcptualioed er cnet fut of nterlations a8 “the snullancous caste of soca intel {ons and interaction tl span sel (ssey 1992.80, The plnniy Ofte pu sbeys basalt of can wilt Space besa disrupted Since pace hasan element of chaoe ae epacepatally coat fats ime, ie an toy cant a soli tae (Meseey 192) 15. lnusing the erm "hangout Tmean to ake up an everyday pect: resistant ihublation of space that sno eve theoretical tet. ‘as Linverwenve the dere faces of» lpi of sustained, dispersed er sing reine, the concept of Pangout bots sore ly heed 1. Srectwalingtheteig ioe ef the proce ofthe active bec inrestance to ntermeshed and interac oppnesators Th bk exh its commends and desis oer sch paces: ply workrvel Ing Wespusing thea of cording ard-ohondonger “7z See chapter? (‘Boomerang Fercepin and he Coloizing Gaz) {hs voiume for an undertanang othe li ot agian esance ‘he interlacing of oppress. ". is impetanttonote tat in he description hanging out connote asciulted to the varios nosadis that rebar the romance of eave ‘where priveged vistors establize oer people spacer without at thom tothe power reitons that construe be spatial ascupation. as Caren Kaplan (1985) argues. Bhs Deed Hare xpenon rey 19020, ngs Thavethoght sb te emancipatory poten of gangs in the conmemporay Und Sates, female gangs topateaar (ot ses, ‘uta female gang). have questions about the meaning of the pai ct gangsin in wih ie thisking in ths compen Mont gangs sete sets tertonally and sive for erie contol fra nue of actvites ie cluding economic aces. The corel over tr i matted Intra of Jncusinn an exclusion along categories of race, tity and cour try origin. Thur taking of tart is opal ut hey reinforce teow {seca frgmentation through categoria incline aod exclions he ccpation af sets by gang sarely tee the fom of hanging cut os ave darted there, though individual gang member fer hang, et Gang ier most in degees in ths apt i spatial. 2 | emtrace Cloris Area's seo travesd at etn tion for border dwellr, taniionals who ae ditoyal othe gis of op prove stom of ere (Aneal4aa 1987) put out he word carrying ‘Tactical Strategies ofthe Stretwalker —~ 285 the sense of transtoals being sot through with a multiplicity of mean- ing am well at their daiyal movement transit across normalized and ‘bund words of sence, Las aravesodss rebody the unraveling of the rormal as ftonal aa tyrannical As the weraveling reveals the Fito, the travail of the process of unraveling unwell its ranma poser. 2. In the Production of Space, Hens Lefebvre (1992) claborates the logic of abstract space, the space of accumutation~"the aumulation of Mfwealth and resources: knowledge, technology, money, precious objects owls of at and nymbols” (Lelebvee 198249). Abstract space i formal Qhanttative, and Homogeneous"t erases distinctions, as much those inch dente from nate and (historical) ime ae those which originate in the body (ope, ses ethnicity)” (Lefebere 19249) —Tucldean, politcal "The dominant for of space endeavours to mould the speces it domi ‘ites hes peripheral spaces) andit seek, often by violent means to reduce Ube abvtices and retstae it encounters there” (Leebrre 199249) ~ {uted by te atte conattted bythe lic of vsuaization—"the eve ends to wgate ejects to the distance, to ender them passive” (fe ‘e'1990286) Though Lefevre does not use the expression “concrete pace” there isa sense in which abstract space ist war with the pavlcuar {Ritmays on the ground. te makes continual efforts to refer to resistance ‘Bu without mat fabric to what he mars by i “inthe same spaces (5 the modem tate there ae ether Forces on the bol, because the rationality ihe sate of fs techniques plans and programmes provokes opposition ‘The votence of power is answered by te Volance of subversion” (Lefeb- ro 19223). “Ss This characterization of the two tones may soem counterintuitive ‘until ne ofr that both the being pressed na dhe pressing ae lived ‘Rastamy So. as one inal fo propa anesl to exer mscular pressure Sind esas a the moment of pressing, f0 does one meet being pressed {oppressing in aneipation af pressing (ein) Mi Akhough it isthe late modem understanding of agency that concep- tually tractus the lege and dominant moral discourse in the United States, the history of socal fragmentation contains the emptying of sce inte colonies that contract abstract space. There fs a tight concepts! Tink between soil fragmentation and abst space. The emptying of pace eratee multiplicity ara replace it with fragmentation. These claims hed tobe elaborated further, unveiling the links Part of the argument Conia in Lefrebue's Te Production of Space (1982), Rerando Coro: ‘ale "Beyone Ovidentatism,” (199), and Walter Mignole's The Darker Side ofthe Renaisece (1995) 5. Trama/tramar femmes The tiple word play is intel to tow bie the datincsion nd separation between the makingand its product nd Iemphasacs the devious guaity of tae making. A "tram —the weave of236 ~ Chapter 10 2 piece of loth— thats“ aml ~ploted~ i one whee weave cannot be understood apart from the plots "Tramoyat —s lantardo word rarksa devious concocting that takes advantage of clgulees proved by edinary expectations. 26, Ihave taken up what Homi Ohabha placed in my plate in The Loca ‘nm of Culture (1998, n particular in "The Postolonial and the Postma ‘erm The Question of Ageney” and “The Commitment to Theory.” 27. This relation to history is exercised in Ansan’ revising Coat- licue and in her depsson of the new mestzs ae pling history through 4 siove reinterpreting history, creating new myths (Ancalda 1987.89), 28, Stretwalking aks place withina minal space athird spec,» bor Aerspace baiting the men ake his ntti poi conc able. The lien gather the heterogeneous coleton of those positioned th border, abyss, eg, shore uf courtersunas, of emergent sen 23. "Tenaive” is claves inthis sence to the goad of “tanta” & word with which Inia this book (ae Introction. 130. Hagerdom and Mason offer an excelent example of writing sbout ‘oth the fare and succes of alternative organizations that aim o faci tate gang members fom exting pariclar pangs in Milwaukee. Though people do not leave the gangs, they take wt of the servies offered (Hog rom aod Mason 198), 31 I tink here of Alinsky style organizing and the work of the Indus- tral Aneas Foundation, of the work of much of the organieed battered women’s movement, ofthe work of sigollicant sectors ofthe poy and es Bian movement of many altermative schools for membrs f gargs of te highly homophobic, masculint, criminal jtce sytem fenly tech niques of he Berea Wario ofthe work of organizations that sustain Aiooal cultural peacies without recreation, an eo on Ie hard to be critical ofthis work that has been sustaining, ept people alive, shoo ‘enormous ewativity and comten, As ler strategies at take sre ‘with thee politics and their logis, respect the impule that aves ws in those directions References Anzaldia, Gloria. 1887. Boderlands/La Banter: The New Mestia, San Franses Spntirs/ Aunt Lit, ‘habla, Homi 1984. 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