Ideas connecting to study

Things I find that connect a dot to something spoken about in my art or media classes

With regard to the topic of violence against women, in North Dakota in particular, the influx of a massive labor force mostly made up of men from out of state brought with it a real threat of women being disappeared or killed.

Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157

E-flux journal, Silvia Federici. It’s insane the amount of genocide that follows labour — to the land, to its nature, to its women.

SF: Going back to the question of violence, when watching images of this machinery going down many kilometers into the center of the earth I was reminded of the fact that throughout the Middle Ages, and into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many countries or communities considered mining taboo because there was a very animistic conception... See more

Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157

E-flux journal, Silvia Federici. Connects to Antarctica essay

This is a very important part of the question of care, and a lesson from many different communities fighting against forces that are far more powerful and seem invincible. And yet, they resist for a long time and sometimes reverse the situation because they can change their own life in ways that create solid ties between them. Going back to the... See more

Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157

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

So, the activities that destroy life are productive—for example, an activity that pollutes a river, like mining. Whereas the activities that generate life are considered unproductive.

Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157

E-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.

Oil extraction is highly symbolic of capitalism, where the production of life is always based on the creation of death. We know this about pesticides in agriculture and we know this about mining. So much depends on this constant production of scarcity, and we live in a kind of somnambulism with this production of death. If we were aware that our... See more

Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157

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.

Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE

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.

We have five hundred years of documentation showing how capitalism needs to continuously dispossess people, to continuously engage in wars killing millions of people. Capitalism is unsustainable. The contradiction facing women in Rojava is the contradiction of our own lives, where we should not use electricity and the digital technology imposed on... See more

Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157

E-flux journal, Silvia Federici.