“Between these two extremes (striated and smooth) other ways of living are clumsily rehearsed…often in the same person.” (Suely Rolnik 2008: 418)

If there is a gap between political movements based on shared identity and those that insist on taking no form, they can be found in the gap where clumsy rehearsals of new social worlds are currently being practiced “often in the life of the same person” (418). The existence of these clumsy rehearsals contradicts Mark Fisher’s totalizing claim for capitalist realism: “the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it” (2009:2). Not only are there alternatives being imagined, they are being practiced, even if they are still in the clumsy rehearsal stage.