Hello, welcome to the 4th video of the ARAP
Anti-Realistic Artistic Practice nº1 Public Domain.
We are Master Axel and Domina Mile
and we are part of Vladimir Tzekov Stage Action Laboratory
In the previous video we gave you some first tips
for you to assemble or fantasize with your first BDSM session,
always trying not to overwhelm you with too much information
and being as clear as possible.
If you have started doing it
and doubts or some kind of idea that you want to share have arisen,
we are wishing to read you in the comments, by mail ...
there are a lot of ways to communicate with us
and it’s very clear how to do it, so...
Well, with the previous video about how to prepare a first session
and the first two videos we did about terms and definitions,
we conclude this first level of generalist approach to BDSM.
And it is necessary that we stop right here
to define what the structure of our channel will be like
because we cannot miss any small details
if we want to improve as dominants and because it DOES matter.
In order not to make history but genealogy,
not to give a lecture but to open debate
to resist chronological order and intellectual reason
as the only ways of interpreting the world...
What?
We promise to unveil all these cryptic concepts
in this video and the next one.
In order not to make history but genealogy,
not to sit on a chair but to open debate,
we have to look for a form of organization between our video installments
that does not respond to a linear progression.
So we thought that our videos will be organized in a kind of spiral,
we will constantly go through points already passed by
but reaching more and more depth.
Imagine now that we are starting the second round.
Thus, this video could be the fourth of our channel,
but also the first of another simulacrum channel
that started at a different level of depth.
And we like this video being two things at once even if it is rhetorical.
In addition to going through the same points
following a thinking direction that refuses to progress forward
-limited to the chronological interpretation of the world-
to try to delve into the multiplicity of the same moment
-a more aionic perception-
we will establish continuous bridges between the different video installments.
We will not consider an idea’s communicative capacity exhausted
by touching it only once,
we will go through the same ideas over and over again
as we go through the same sexual acts willing to gain breadth and depth.
Whenever we go through an idea
that appears significantly developed in other videos
we will use a Roman number like this in the upper right corner
so you can go to that video on our channel and watch it if you feel like.
We take this opportunity to say
that as soon as we have the necessary subscribers for YouTube
to let us put the link inside the video
we will do it, so please, come on, subscribe now.
And as all the videos are going to weave relations with the other videos
that are rather messy and especially chaotic,
and thank goodness that we have already made some place for chaos,haven’t we?
our channel will be structured as a:
Rhizome
What?
Rhizome
But who has invented that?
Gilles Deleuze
Who?
Rhi-zome
A network  structure with chaotic connections
that are not organized around a main or pivoting root.
So is it a root?
A tuber?
A carrot?
No, no!
But does it exist beyond the post-modern mind ?!
But, the thing is that post-modern is like less fashionable,
I think now post-structuralist is more used, you know?
Because post-modernism is more related to capitalism.
Capitalism has already taken over everything …
In fact they’re absolutely right.
Yes... Ok, then post-structuralist
Yeah, it's better
But does it exist beyond the post-structuralist mind ?!
Yes
An example?
Ginger
Hello, we are Master Axel and Domina Mile
and welcome to this YouTube channel / audiovisual performance / video-blog
which is structured as a ginger.
But ... maybe with all this previous explanation
people are going to think that it is the real first video of the channel ...
But that's what we wanted too, didn’t we?
In fact at this point of the ginger we are going to finally talk about
Foucault and BDSM
or how to take advantage of BDSM without even having a session?
And why this double title?
Very simple, because the form of BDSM that we want to tackle today in this video
does not consist in explaining how to participate in sessions
but rather, in wearing the Foucaultian glasses.
And you may say Why these glasses, if Foucault's are a bit retro?
Because we believe that the Foucaultian glasses
are the base of the rest of the glasses that we are starting to wear,
although still timidly.
Sometimes when ideas have a lot of repercussion and branch out in multiple directions,
it is good to revisit the original idea from time to time.
Not to return to the origin to understand what happens now
- that would be history and not genealogy -
but to check if we have lost something along the path we did not want to lose.
And also because this is our first video
- second first video-
and we want to start from the beginning then.
BDSM, as neuronal or neurophysical practice
puts your Foucaultian glasses on.
Practicing BDSM is organizing part of the world
as consensual asymmetric power devices.
Just the part of the world that you reserve for your sessions
with your non-couples or alone with your own conscious body.
And in this concept we already have Foucault implicit,
because thanks to him, we have stopped thinking power as something essentialist,
as something that is just there and that is eternal and immutable
and we have start thinking it as something dynamic.
There are power dynamics and devices rather than the power itself.
It is much more revealing to think that power is part of our dynamics
and that it is something that we exercise and support every day
to think that power is something that exists independently of people.
In other words, as a mathematical metaphor,
power is a vector magnitude, not a scalar one,
it can not exist unless it has a direction and a sense.
It needs to go from someone to someone or to himself.
In his history of sexuality, in which Foucault rather than a story
makes a genealogy of sexual behaviors,
a non-linear narrative that doesn’t try to find a supposed origin of a sexuality
that was already there before us, a priori,
Foucault contradicts the traditional explanation of sexuality.
A traditional explanation that conceives sexuality as something inherent to the human being
that has always been there and has been rather repressed.
And according to this traditional vision
to be happy we would only have to find,
probably with the help of psychoanalysis,
our repressed desires, the truth about our sexuality.
For Foucault sexuality has not been repressed,
on the contrary, a whole series of discourses have been facilitated to generate a concrete sexuality,
the one the system was interested in in each moment.
And to trace those discourses that in each historical moment have been generating our sexuality
is to make genealogy.
There is no transcendent truth in sexuality,
there is a multiplicity of discourses
that regulate, construct and discipline sexualities.
In fact, our bodies as canvases never entirely blank
are the inscription fields of that discipline
as in Kafka's novel ‘The penal colony’,
and from there biopolitics concept  would start in Foucault.
Not only ideology is used to exercise power,
discipline is also inscribed in our bodies.
These discourses (or knowledge) that are being built
contribute to maintain certain established structures of power.
In other words, they are discourses that function as knowledge-power devices.
And if you don’t believe the absolute truth exists
it seems very logical that you distrust the discourses that pretend to find or look for it.
It also seems logical you rather think
these discourses are maintaining the established power structures.
Another consequence of power not existing
independently of who exercises or receives
it is that we can not judge it as something per se good or bad,
and this disables the first great prejudice against BDSM,
which says that any power relation that is exercised asymmetrically is always bad.
We will not extend too much because it is already explained in the first video
but remember that if you follow the treatment ,
of a Western or Ayurvedic doctor  no matter which one
or if you take your car to the mechanic,
you are being the submissive part of that pair you form with your dominant doctor or mechanic.
Practicing BDSM is to become aware and to work for the visibility
of consensual asymmetric power devices
and also to isolate the power devices that are there
and have to stop being implicit in order to deactivate the abuses.
In fact, in the instagram of this practice, right here you can see it,
we will devote ourselves mainly to upload publications
that talk about all these devices of power that are already around us,
so we go deciding whether they are consensual or no, if they are ethical or not.
That’s why it’s useful to read Foucault, participate in a session or follow this video-blog,
to sharpen our minds a little more,
to learn to see the abuse where we did not see it before and to stop seeing it where there is not,
in the free consensus between adult people.
That is, everything to demand a little more to our critical capabilities.
In addition to doing it enjoying our bodies and this is very subversive.
That's it, we hope to see you in another moment
or in another sense of the very same moment here,
or in any other practice of the ARAP nº1 Public Domain.
If you liked it give us a thumbsup, ring the bell,
subscribe to the channel, leave us comments, write us an email,
whatever you want but above all do not forget
that what there is, is not all that exists.
