… contrary to Marx’s assumption, the reproduction of labor power is not accomplished by the market alone, and the class struggle is not fought only in the factories but also in our bodies, and it is fought not only between labor and capital but also within the proletariat, to the extent that men, especially when waged, have accepted being the state’s representative within the family and the broader community with respect to women.

– Silvia Federici, Patriarchy of the Wage, Introduction, p 7

Brighton Beach, summer 2021

Housework, in fact, is more than housecleaning. it is servicing the wage-workers physically, emotionally, and sexually and getting them ready to work day after day for the wage. It is taking care of our children — the future workers — assisting them from birth through their school years and ensuring that they too perform in the ways expected of them in capitalism.

– ibid, Counterplanning from the Kitchen, p 11-12

I could tell you and then..

Far from being a precapitalist structure, the family, as we know it in the West, is a creation of capital for capital, as an institution that is supposed to guarantee the quantity and quality of labor power and its control. ”Like the trade union the family protects the worker but also ensures that he and she will never be anything but workers. And that is why the struggle of the woman of the working class against the family is crucial.” (Mariarosa Dalla Costa)

– ibid, 14

> i think this goes to the core of why I never wanted kids. the nuclear family looked so suffocating and there didn’t exist other configurations. climate, ecological, and moral crises is a big one too obvi <

From New Brunswick. Fall sunsets in Jersey are glorious. Also fuck those who hate on Jersey 🖕🏽
September 2021

“Baudrillard rejects the concept of ideology because it implies that there is some referent that this representation only distorts or obscures and that effective demystification could lay bare.” 96

This seems to be the exact opposite of Spivak’s thesis in “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Vis-a-vi concept/significance of ideology.. hmm.. hmm.. I should initiate a dialogue 🤔 First and foremost, I need a frame(work) or parameters.

While for Durkheim the modern collective representation [of/in sociology] is an open-ended, expanding possibility for self-reflection, for Baudrillard it is a precedes, closed circuit that inscribes itself more and more deeply as it functions.

The dynamic, interpretive, and troping movement is, instead, a nightmarish mode of representation where the sheer volume and speed of information eroded meaning in direct proportion to the extent that it produces measures of social life (or more correctly, to the extent that it produces social measures of life). As such, ‘communication has evolved from a complex syntactic structure of language to the probing of a binary signaling system: a perpetual test’ (1984:68)