Reclaiming the Body of the Witch: a review of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin from Silvia Federici

While Caliban and the Witch told us the story of how bodies were subjugated and how we became separated from our bodies, her latest book, Beyond the Periphery of the Skin—Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism, addresses how our relations to the body play out now, especially in the digital age where the cyborg (half human, half machine) has replaced the earlier mechanistic model of the body-as-machine.

Rhyd WildermuthJune 4, 2020Silvia Federici, PM Press, Feminis, witch, trans, sophie lewis, Peter Grey, surrogacy, Body Politics, Knudson, Surrogacy, slavery, discipline Comments

A History of Displacement of Non-white Women In Vila Mimosa

Mapping the roots of Brazil’s most notorious red light district from the Byzantine Empire and WW1.

Place of Discourse and Folklore of the African Diaspora

On being white and talking about racism. How to witness and learn from Afro-Brazilian stories of resistance, through lenses free from the objectifying effects of the white gaze.

Ancestors, Colonialism, Cultural Commentary, Decolonization, Editorial, Land, Magic, Mythology, Polytheism, Reclaiming, Ritual, StoriesMirna Wabi-SabiAugust 20, 2018Acupe, Africa, African Diaspora, Bahia, Brazil, Colonization, Quilombo, slavery Comments

The Roots of Our Resistance

From Rhyd Wildermuth: " Rootless people are easily controlled and coerced, people without the stories, myths, and spirits of a place have nowhere to turn beside the market for the creation of their meaning."

Anarchism, Animism, Capitalism, Colonialism, Long-Form EssayRhyd WildermuthMay 29, 2015Black displacement, Disenchantment, Displacement, Enclosure, First Nations, Gentrification, Primitive Accumulation, Real Estate, San Francisco, Seattle, slavery Comments

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