CAPA ***** Agonistic Infrastructures for Thought * Networked Epistemologies After the Curatorial Turn

The CAPA project (Consejo Agonista de Políticas Anticipatorias) articulates itself as a methodological, epistemological, and symbolic device born from the exhaustion of consensual knowledge production and the saturation of discursive economies in late-network culture. Emerging from curatorial practice and relational art, CAPA assumes agonism not as conflict for its own sake, but as a productive tension that reactivates thought across disciplines. Drawing from Mouffe’s political agonism while weaving together Bourdieu’s theory of fields, Foucault’s dispositifs of power, Deleuze’s structural multiplicities, Žižek’s narrative ideologies, and Marx’s expanded notion of capital, CAPA positions itself as a post-curatorial apparatus. It abandons the exhibition as a terminal form and replaces it with conversation, rotation, and derivation. The emphasis on symbolic and social capital—now hyper-accelerated through digital prosumption—situates CAPA squarely within a condition where every subject is both emitter and commodity. Against this backdrop, CAPA proposes slowness, synthesis, and selective visibility as counter-strategies. The council becomes a regulating intelligence, deciding what layers of complexity become public and what remain internal, thus resisting the compulsion toward total transparency. This balance between silence and noise is not merely tactical but epistemic: knowledge here is not accumulated linearly but cultivated through fallow periods, rotations of leadership, and the deliberate friction of antagonistic positions.