Everyday practices are: mediated and non-identical because of their immanence with regard to processes of social reproduction; they are non-identical because they are constituted by a social division of labour; they are mediated by accumulated violence; in both these ways, they involve the negotiation of social contradictions, especially the double mediation by accumulated violence and by autonomous domains of subaltern politics.

A “materialist” mediation of practices: communication qua meaning and communication qua environment — emplacement (space bias) and horizon (time bias) that includes technology, raw materials, energy sources.

A materialist intermediation of practices then involves these two distinct kinds of communication that mediate each other so that the analytic binaries of one throw light on the other:

The cliché of the network is a symptom that the mediation of meaning and the mediation of everyday practices constitute a representational, narrative form problem that can only be solved poetically and aesthetically.

 

“The duality of subject and object [for us, now, the duality of 0 and 1] must be critically maintained against the thought’s inherent claim to be total . . . no critique of [the division’s] subjective origin will reunify the parts, once they have split in reality” (Adorno 1966a:175).