As Goes Naples
The disastrous, corrupt "recovery" of war-shattered Naples in Curzio Malaparte's The Skin reflects the rot at the core of the European peace
Red Holidays of Genius
The Italian Futurists' marriage of man and machine was a feast for the senses
May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow
Productive life and quotidian life coincide in their misery.
An exemplary revolt
Because we don't defend - we attack - there's no need to ask for the disarming of the enemy, just weapons for comrades.
"a disease that would reveal itself to be incurable: the ever more widespread and pressing war of women"
"if the paternal authority that sometimes manifests itself in a merited spanking was to lessen, the family would go to ruin.”
Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)
Domestic work today means to literally give over your own life to that of others (kids and husband), to their spaces, to their times, to their rhythms.
We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class
from this struggle that built a first breakwater of defense to let us catch our breath and keep our heads above the flood of labor, from this struggle we had to begin.
Destroy yourselves as our bosses. Destroy yourselves as the inexhaustible vacuums of our domestic labor.
When the flowers of the garden no longer smell sweet, when the leaves refuse to bloom and the birds to sing, the bosses of the garden go into crisis.
Women in armed struggle
The state is astonished. Men are astonished. We are astonished that they are astonished. And now we come to the problem.
What the hell is the family?
it is them, it is women, above all, who have an objective interest in ruining this condition