175 CONSTITUENCIES / CONSTRUCTION, CONTINUITY-FORM AND COUNTER-CONTINUITY How can we think about institutions in the middle of this construction fever? I would like here to give the example of the 98weeks Research Project I co-founded with Mirene Arsanios in 2007. We started with a need to create a research platorm and community that would be looking at a same research topic through diferent angles, and that would be pursuing a collectve form of research. Afer doing many projects and setng up a project space, we came to a moment where we felt that the structure we are working in and thinking through needs to be thought of in it- self as a feminist structure, and thus the queston was: how can an art organisaton be a feminist one? This queston was the topic of the Labour. Capital. Insttuton: A Forum on Feminisms we organised with Sidsel Nelund in the summer of 2015. It proposed that we think through the queston of → labour and its relaton to capital, domestcity and insttutons. This happens at a very specifc moment, when there is a growing economy of domestc work and → migratory fows, which are signifcant not only in a Lebanese context. Simultaneously, Beirut is experiencing an increase in new art insttutons, and we see that women consttute a precari- ous part of the workforce upon which the art world functons. As art insttutons contnuously reproduce this exploitaton, we wanted to critcally ask: How can we think of underpaid women in the art world within the frame of a larger history of un(der)paid domestc work? So if underpaid (mostly) women run the art world’s structures, perhaps while all the new art foundatons are emerging and capital is being thrown into the arts, we could propose a feminist structure where questons of labour, equal pay, working hours, social security and maternal leave are brought to the front, along with ques- tons of sexism and sexual harassment inside such insttutons. Where questons of care work and reproductve work (tasks that are “naturally” assigned to women) can be re-questoned. And if jobs are an extension of housework, then how can an art structure re-think this gendered division of labour? The following text is part of an earlier version of one chapter from Alexei Pen- zin’s book in preparaton Against the Contnuum: Sleep and Subjectvity in Capitalist Modernity, which will be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Il faut contnuer, je ne peux pas contnuer, je vais contnuer. 160 — Samuel Becket Introduction: Capitalism’s ends and continuities The intenton of this artcle is to introduce the concept of “contnuity-form” as a critcal → interventon into the current theoretcal and politcal debates on the Lef. Due to the scope of potental references and contexts, the paper provides only general and condensed mapping for further research, while skipping detailed discussion of the partcular theories and arguments involved, as well as a consider- 160 Editors’ note: “You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” The Continuity-form and Counter-continuity Towards a Critical Theory of “Always-on” Capitalism Alexei Penzin February 2016 → labour 189 migratory 125 → interventon 187