Ideas connecting to study
Things I find that connect a dot to something spoken about in my art or media classes
Ideas connecting to study
Things I find that connect a dot to something spoken about in my art or media classes
E-flux journal, Silvia Federici. It’s insane the amount of genocide that follows labour — to the land, to its nature, to its women.
E-flux journal, Silvia Federici. Connects to Antarctica essay
E-flux journal, Silvia Federici. The power of blockades. Taking what they need most — time.

“No matter how well-trained we are, few are the women who do not feel cheated when the bride’s day is over and they find themselves in front of a dirty sink. Many of us still have the illusion that we marry for love. A lot of us recognize that we marry for money and security; but it is time to make it clear that while the love or money involved is
... See moreE-flux journal, Silvia Federici. Really connects with the contrast between creative explorers and scientific explorers in Antarctica — creativity is life birthing, but it is viewed as unproductive, perhaps for its affectivity. Also connects with Tyson’s point that cities are built on the paradox that they are ever-growing while to grow in such a way is to cause decay, decline, death. Think of deserts being the void of capitalism’s excess. Think of Spence’s visual of labour adding heat to Antarctica, capital adding heat to the earth, changing what is natural and good.
The hips are her mother’s fault, genetically speaking, and are resented as such, as though she had conceived Chloe as part of an elaborate plan to cultivate her dancing and then, via anatomical time bomb, sabotage it.
Reminds me of the period when Mothers were responsible for the success of the child, and viewed ultimately as complete failures at this duty. No child was ever perfect enough to let a Mother off.
E-flux journal, Silvia Federici.