diff --git a/content/topic/commoningcare.md b/content/topic/commoningcare.md index 9d79bb1..97774e7 100644 --- a/content/topic/commoningcare.md +++ b/content/topic/commoningcare.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ has_sessions: mappingtheinvisible, radicalredistribution, unproductiveresistance --- # Introduction -“Commoning care” here is related to creative methods and collective "rituals" to escape the capital hegemony within childcare and schooling pedagogies. However, "commoning care" is also broadly intended as a statement to say that the only work that has to be done immediately is the one which aims to undo capitalism altogether. +The topic “Commoning care” is primarely related to creative methods and collective "rituals" to escape the capital hegemony within childcare and schooling pedagogies. However, "commoning care" here is also broadly intended as a statement, to say that the only work that has to be done immediately is the one which aims to undo capitalism altogether. Both “commoning” and “care” are concepts around which many theories (and practices) have emerged and grown in the last decades. Therefore, it is risky – and indeed it may sound confusing – to bring these terms together. At the same time however, this can also be a strategy to create a perspective, a viewpoint from which to navigate these concepts without making them abstract and, as a consequence, delivering them to capitalistic uses. Such reterritorialization happens frequently: one just has to think of terms such as "queer" or "participation", to name just a couple, which have been quickly appropriated by market investment strategies and state's practices of control on propriety. However, the battle over language is never settled: we always lose and take back concepts, inventing and reinventing meanings and perspectives through which a word can show its worlds.