Tag: self care
Di Chris Matthew Sciabarra. Articolo pubblicato originariamente il 24 giugno 2024 con il titolo Therapy for Radicals. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. Scritto a quattro mani assieme a Ryan Neugebauer Rules for Radicals, di Saul Alinsky Nel 1971, l’attivista statunitense Saul Alinsky pubblicò un libro intitolato Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic…
Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals In 1971, American activist Saul Alinsky published a book called Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals. Alinsky bemoaned the fact that activists, with “no illusions about the system,” sought to “Burn the system down!” Many of these same activists had “plenty of illusions about the way to…
Di Walker Storz. Originale pubblicato il 18 aprile 2018 con il titolo The Sick and the Damned. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. “Capivo che la differenza tra sani e malati era così profonda da annullare ogni differenza in termini di intelligenza o razza.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Il Grande Gatsby Se il capitalismo produce inevitabilmente il…
Postliberal and neoliberal thought views the individual as totally cut off from a social body, simply a biological unit in which malfunctions can be addressed through medical or pharmacological interventions. The tragicomic result of this simultaneous pretense toward empathy (capitalism with a human face) and individualism is “self-care culture.” “Self care” becomes both an industry and a deflection from the very real problems that capitalism causes.
