From ac75e91e67b3793715565de2aafa63e2945149f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: valerix Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 12:53:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/commoningcare.md' --- content/topic/commoningcare.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/topic/commoningcare.md b/content/topic/commoningcare.md index 0bb1f5b..602909e 100644 --- a/content/topic/commoningcare.md +++ b/content/topic/commoningcare.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ has_sessions: mappingtheinvisible, radicalredistribution, unproductiveresistance --- # Introduction -The topic “Commoning care” emerged from a set of creative methods and collective "rituals" used to escape the capitalist 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. +The topic “Commoning care” emerged from a set of creative methods and collective "rituals" used to escape the capitalist hegemony that were experimented with in a context of collectivizing childcare and explore different pedagogies. "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. The first 4 sessions of this topic are therefore focused on the questions of life/work balance and unpaid labour, while the last two are related to the experience of creating a pirate kindergarten in Milan. 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.