Witold Kieńć edited What is a festival production process?.md  over 9 years ago

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The cultural event is a stream of production and reproduction of social relations and, in fact, it consist of spontanious, informal interactions. Specyphic characteristics of each particular festival, its 'atmosphere' is elaborated by all its participants, not only by this formally considered as staff. What is more it might be created only thanks to existing, mostly informal, social relations. Existing festivals are created by very borad social networks, while formal organizations 'coordinating' the process of its production is usually very lean. Resources used in festival production process are mostly social connections and resources (e.g. technical, but also human resources) that can be mobilized with this connections.   For objectives of our research the most importatn is that the process of festival production is the process of creating, recreating and sustaining social network. This can not be done solely with _disciplinary techinques_, or any other techniques of power, focused on individuals. Here we have reached to the concept of _biopolitics_ defined by Foucault as a rational way of governing the whole _population_. According to Foucaut biopolitics is a kind of power that aims to understand, analyze and use dependencies between individuals, groups and their environment, and which treat this dependencies as quasi-natural. quasi-natural, thus not treat them as good or bad, just treat them as given.