From e788f664f5f145aba38aeafc7f7401ceb0965808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: maddu Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:05:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/commoningcare.md' --- content/topic/commoningcare.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/topic/commoningcare.md b/content/topic/commoningcare.md index 602909e..f16c9a5 100644 --- a/content/topic/commoningcare.md +++ b/content/topic/commoningcare.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ has_sessions: mappingtheinvisible, radicalredistribution, unproductiveresistance --- # Introduction +![](static/topic/commoningcare/sayitloud.jpg) + 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.