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The racial fracture of which the ‘colonized’ were the victims divided not only the global organization of labor, but even the revolution of the 1960s. Today, the conditions of possibility of a world revolution reside, on one hand, in the invention of a new internationalism, which the movements of neo-colonized people (migrants, first of all) embody almost physically and which the movements of women are currently the only ones to mobilize things to their worldwide networks; and on the other hand, in the critique of capitalist hierarchies, which mustn’t be limited to the sphere of labour. The sexual and racial division structure not only the reproduction of capital but also the distribution of social functions and roles (16).
Maurizio Lazzarato, Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution.

How do we decolonize racializing desires that we project on one another as humans? How do we emancipate desire from sexual and gender supremacies?

How can we create performance spaces and opportunities to generate complex, generous, loving, and open-ended relationalities that can foster affirmative experiences of difference beyond capitalist capture?

Lazzarato speaks of the new fascisms we face reinforcing hierarchies of race, sex, and class all while re-creating worlds where the rentiers (landlords and owners of different stripes) lord over the population as in the novels of Balzac.

Global sordid spaces, where a ‘secession of the wealthy’ emancipates itself from the world’s population via self-sequestration and accelerated sadism towards ‘the poors’. What is to be done?

In the framework delineated, on the one hand, by the project of
political succession of the rich and, on the other,
by the powerlessness of the forces that wish to block it,
democracy no longer has any utility. (61)

How can performance spaces enact a possibility for political potency increasingly less possible within political representation?