care as a community good
by Keely Adler · updated 3mo ago
care as a community good
by Keely Adler · updated 3mo ago
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
We’ve been told that doing “good work” will lead to economic success, but really, it might just be the other way around. With the help of large collective organising, worker-driven structures, and knowledge-sharing, we can accomplish better work conditions and more beautiful, more fulfilling creative work.”
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
That ‘individual responsibility’ idea is present in so many messages from awareness campaigns: the idea that it is our duty to reach out to loved ones and services for help; the suggestion that mental health support should come in the form of a ‘service’ at all; the emphasis on individual tools like therapy, meds, self-help, mindfulness and apps to
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I think attention’s prioritization of the optical is already waning in favor of alternative modes of being-in-common, reflected in the rise of a discourse of ‘care’ in contemporary art and performance—I’m thinking of all the collective, experiential, sensorial, even spiritual practices that I’m seeing today. In New York, I see exhibitions and perfo
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oftentimes when folks think about existing in groups, their self sort of gets lost. But, actually, caring for yourself—and, maybe, reinventing the individual narrative that has been so Americanized into something that’s going to contribute to the group’s care—is what I’m getting at.
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
In any liberated future, care will be wide-ranging, abundant, flexible, ever-evolving, and tailored to hyperlocal context and also to the individual
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Keely Adler added 3mo ago
When you do deeper digging, there isn’t much pedagogy around care outside of healthcare.
Keely Adler added 4mo ago