Turbulences in the Walls. Discipline and Save

Abstract

This article reflects on the state of health of collectives, i.e. on the question ‘when one feels good or bad in a collective?’, which underlies the question ‘how to live (or not live) in a collective with whom?’. A first theoretical part, dedicated to observing the crisis of certain fixed and morally accepted social ensembles within which to stay, is followed by a theoretical, methodological and analytical part, which explores attempts at ‘union’ capable of breaking these rules and finding oneself with those who, according to political power and the law, one should not. A corpus of anonymous writings and artistic interventions on prison and territorial walls scouts the physical and semantic ways of uniting despite prohibitions.